HELP: 1960 Imperial conversion from generator to alternator

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> You're right. I still hear lots of people continue to call them
> (alternators) generators. Just like coil packs are still called
> distributors, even though they are very different compared to the
> device that they replaced. I have even heard a throttle body referred
> to as a carburator.

There's a big difference: Alternator is a technically correct term for
the device, even if the standard terminology is less specific. An
alternator is a sub-class of generator that produces electricity by
rectifing AC current to DC. A dynamo is also a gnerator, but of a
fundamentally different type. "Alternator" is to "genarator" as "coupe"
is to "car."

In contrast, calling a throttle body a carb or a coil pack a distributor
is just..... wrong.