Once everything was cleaned, I just had a machine shop press the commutator bearing and the drive-end assembly into place for me (for free!) since I don't have a shop press around and didn't want to just hammer them back on with a socket.
The spacer should just slide on, and the woodruff key can be tapped back into place. Then the pulley(fan) can also be tapped back on and the lock washer and nut can secure it.
Here is how mine looks after everything was all put together:
So now the important part:
Since everything was taken apart, all residual magnetism is apparently lost.
So now the generator needs to be repolarized.
After all the reading I've done, I came to the conclusion that we have an
"A" Circuit system due to the fact that our field coil is connected to the insulated brush of the generator.
Something to keep in mind, I personally want mine to be a
NEGATIVE GROUND system so my NEG post on my battery is connected to ground, and the POS post is connected to the starter relay. Also, I have the NEG post of my coil hooked up to my distributor (I have no idea if that makes a difference). I also kept the belt off the pulley so I could see it spin.
So once I got my generator wired back up to my voltage regulator, here was my process:
1. I attached one end of a jumper cable to the ARM terminal of the voltage regulator
2. Briefly touched the other end to the BAT terminal of the voltage regulator (
SPARKS!)
3. Repeat touching the BAT terminal just to make sure (The pulley should spin clockwise briefly each time it sparks)
4. DONE!
AGAIN, this is what
I did and it happened to work for me