The Voltage Regulator Fried

Any time there’s a malfunctioning part on one of my cars, I like to save it. Sometimes it serves as inspiration, sometimes it just looks cool. Like, to help get over the expensive sadness of the engine I blew up on a very bad day, I kept the fried bearings. They’d gotten so hot, they’d melted. Yeah, molten metal in my engine. I don’t ever want that to happen again, so seeing those bearings reminds me to check the oil and all-in-all pay attention to what my engine sounds like.

I even saved the warped and cracked valve out of my convertible ’68 Mustang…and the busted exhaust manifold has spent time as a pen holder on my desk although not anymore. It got replaced when I unearthed my Ziggy pen cup from when I was little (It says “Genius at Work” and is likely copyright 1980!).

So, anyway, when my ’68 Mustang Convertible was still running rough even after the engine swap, it was time to figure out why. The battery had died a few times, too.

That should’ve been my first clue. That, plus the dim headlights, flickering interior lights and the general rough ignition problems. The funniest part of the whole thing is how simple of a part it was, but how quietly it broke. It’s not the kind of thing that goes Ka-Pow! and suddenly the car stops or makes awful noises.

Changing it out was real easy and now it sits on my shelf of odd tidbits…including the busted rocker stud from my husband’s ’66 Corvette and the interior build sheet from my ’68 Mustang fastback, etc.

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