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I was working on my generator , air valve, suspension and wiring this weekend. My original generator developed a flat spot on the comutator so I decided to replace it after finding out that the armature and two points on the comutator were shorted. The guy who told me that the arcing I was experiencing on the comutator was most likely a short that caused the flat spot was right. My comutator always looked blue stained from heat and I thought this was normal even though fan air blows through this. My generator was always making a whine like it was straining for movement and my radio always had a whine in FM and a roar on my mother's favorate AM channel. This gen noise was present over a year ago and I thought this was normal for this car, im sorry I thought my car's shortcommings were normal and not problems to resolve. After replacing the generator with a good one I reconditioned from the junkyard, I had more power, faster idle , little better acceleration and idle when adjusted lower was even more beautiful and stronger. I have a huge battery (1200 cold cranking amps) I wonder with the large load of recharging, the load of the generator short and the terrible DC ripple going to my computer made my car run odd ,but not bad, sometimes. The ripple probably screwed with my "computer" and gave it funny pulses that made my engine change running characteristics day by day and hour by hour even though it ran well. The generator short with the battery load probably loaded down my engine speed and ate some horses in the process. Radio is now rid of all generator noises and stone quiet in FM. I got some more ponies now and somehow it seems to run a little cooler at high speed or is it because of the higher pressure around here now even though the outside temps hit the 80's. I think it was the generator the cause of more heat. I found and solved the problem with my air control valve, it was stuck and all it needed was a few dips in cleaning solution (gasoline). The inner valve was crusted with carbon. Now my idle is more adustable and it stays at the same speed as it warms up. feels like a new motor now without ideosyncroses. I almost have perfection. Do you think that the generator can cause enough load to heat up and load down the engine noticably? LEON MARTINEZ martinezl@ftscpac.navy.mil 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org