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If your generator light goes full bright when you start the car and stays that way no matter what you do while the engine is running, your generator probably lost its polarity during testing. Disconnect all the wires from the generator. Remove the generator drive belt. Ground the DF terminal. Using a loose car battery, connect the negative battery post to the generator body, and touch a lead from the positive battery post to the positive terminal on the generator. This will turn your generator into a motor, and the pulley should spin. It will also restore the polarity, and your generator light should start acting correctly. Tim Dapper James Burroughs wrote: > > Subject: 66Fastback > > Yo T-3 Lovers: > Over the weekend I put the rebuilt engine back in with new ring and val guides. > All went well until I begin to start her up. after a few attempt it > started there was no smoke and no oil leak. However the generator light came on > and would not go out along with what appear to be a loose wire that come from > the choke , this wire looks like it should be spot welded/sorted any way it is > real loose at the weld on both carborator and at time you can see little trail > of smoke. The question is should the choke wire be that loose and the > generator light what sup with that. I had the generator checked before I > installed it. It was rated as ok. of course the carborator was re built for > $ 100.00. Has any one of you had any experience with a similiar problem?\ > > James Burroughs > James_Burroughs@qmbridge.calstate.edu