Re: [T3] New to list too...sort of...

[Sqrbacklover@aol.com]

Jim,
       I'll be looking at some local places here to see if they have parts 
for it.  As far as what has been causing the gen to go out in the past - I'm 
not so sure.  When I bought the car it still had it's original 6V generator - 
but the PO had already half-way converted the system to 12V.  So literally 
every year to the month I was replacing the regulator and rebuilding the 
generator.  Once I figured this out and switched it all to 12v, my problem 
seemed to go away.  I had not had to touch it for about 3 years, then it went 
out last year.  When this happened - I never did find out what had gone 
wrong.  I should have asked but only cared about getting it fixed at the 
time.  I'm learning the hard way to keep track of this stuff for future 
reference.  There is a place locally that I had rebuild it - just your run of 
the mill generator/alt rebuild shop.  The last time was the only time that I 
had personally re-installed the generator.  As I noted though - I had a shop 
look at it to make sure all was ok - I knew everything had to line up but 
wasn't sure I did it correctly.  Knowing my track record for generators - 
that's why I was thinking there is something causing it to burn out.  My 
radio will cut out and lights dim when I use the turn signal or apply the 
breaks (all when I have my headlights on).  And the gen light always glows 
for me when I apply the breaks as well.  So I was guessing something was 
being overloaded somewhere...Is this an appropriate guess?
Whew...sorry to ramble, so much information that's probably relevant to 
finding my problem.  Aside from myself, of course!  =o)
-Amanda

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