AJS & Matchless Owners Club

Hello All,
New to the forum and to pre-war bikes so hoping for some help and advice here...info on pre-war Matchless bikes is not that easy to come by I find. Anyway, took the old Matchy on a 180 mile trip to Whitby at the weekend with other obsessed enthusiasts. Great trip and all went well except for boiling the 6v battery near Malton. Suspect this might be the regulator (or a short?) - not investigated yet. Any advice on how to test the regulator?

Hello and welcome Steve, one of our members has a very good web site dealing with electrical aspects and his two G3 bikes and worth a look.Very interesting site and full of usefull info and links to find more stuff.

http://matchlessclueless.com/

Hi Steve,
Your bike is probably equiped with the older type regulator Lucas MCR1. The principles are the same as for the more recent MCR2. A service manual for MCR2 is available from Christian Gyde's website, archives.jampot.dk . Information for both MCR1 and MCR2 is given here for example:
http://classicrider.dk/dokuments/Servic ... tno804.pdf
Success,
Albert

That's great chaps thanks - greatly appreciated! Gives me something to get started with, and F.W.Neill is a bit limited on the subject. Bike is a '38 G4 so I am guessing the regulator is identical to a very early G3 in case I need any bits? (not had time to investigate yet).