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Sure, they can be rebuilt, it's just a matter of finding someone who can in this disposible age. You could have: shorted commutator, one or more armature coils open or shorted, open or shorted field coils, bad bearings. Usually if you need to replace brushes, the commutator needs a skim cut on a lathe and a clean-up after. I have done this, it's not hard getting things apart and doing it if you have the tooling and the time. Make sure you have a good ground on the thing, sometimes that wire gets a little crispy and breaks, but you can't see it. Have had some odd intermittents that way(that later turned into opens!) On Fri, 31 Jul 1998 22:50:47 -0500, you wrote: >I just had this problem two days ago...I'd go back there and tap the >gen and light was off...until two days ago the light never went off. I >change the voltage regulator..that was not it! I changed the brushes, >that was not either. Then I went to a friend who had an extra gen and >viola!! the gen light was off!!. > >Does anyone had their gen rebuild? Can they be rebuild??? > >Luis > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org >