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> okay....NOW I AM JUST PISSED! Get everything working. Drive to work... > still getting good voltage! Come home, everything is great. Go out 10 > minutes later and start the car, then, the voltage gauge starts to drop, > and drop and drop. Down to 8v again, then lower... Shut off the car, > recharge the battery, recheck all the wire connections. Start the car > and back to loosing voltage in a hurry. Have the battery tested, it is > fine. Go through the whole process again. Start the car, good voltage! > whahoooo!!!!! let the car idle for a while... seems good. Go to move > the car and let it idle some more, after 20 minutes of what seems like > perfection, it happens again. GRRRRRRRRRRR Ouch. I remember I was experiencing 'black-outs' in my Chevy (I know, I know), not fun, especially on the freeway! I finally unhooked the 12+ leads off of everything (including every last light, lamp, etc) and then tested for continuity from the 12+ circuit (at the battery lead (unhooked)) to ground. By placing a single fuse at a time in the box I figured I could isolate the sub-circuit and find the %$#@! short, didn't take long to realize I was getting continuity all the time, and looked up stream of the fuse box.. My prob was arcing in the connection through the firewall, which is why I wasn't blowing fuses (but *was* flirting with a serious burnout) The entire process was a PIA, but it revealed the problem. I wonder if your gen prob is just a side effect of a greater issue? My thoughts are finicky gen, shorting 12+ or bad grounds.. pretty vague, I know. Offer still stands. Hope that helps, good luck, Curtis ---------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/