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Illl bet ya need a new Gen! High RPMs will cause a marginal unit to possible cut out. Keith Keith Park Top Notch Restorations topnotch@nycap.rr.com 71 Squareback 65 Notchback 65 Squareback 75 Opel 87 Golf 88 Rx7 10th Anniversary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian" <vwfye@frontiernet.net> To: "Type 3 Mailing List" <type3@vwtype3.org> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 12:00 AM Subject: [T3] gen/VR issues... part 27 > well, Toby came down to my place from Portland today to help me with my > wiring issues (complete mess under the dash) as well as the gen/VR issue > in the 73 squareback. After a long day, the wiring under the dash was > cleaned up and we were getting a charge to the battery from the > generator! whooohooooo!!!! so, for a victory celebration, we took off > for a drive. we drove through town, noting that the voltage was good > and would vary a bit with rpms. 5 miles into the drive we hit the > freeway on ramp and i rap through the gears... enjoying the cruise and > listening to the motor. get to the offramp by my house 4 miles later > and the meter is reading below 12v and with revs the meter shows no > change. grrrr. get back to the house, and go through the > bentley/adney battery of tests... ZERO output from the generator again! > aaaaaauuuuughhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is exactly what it did > before when i thought i had it fixed... it cut out after rapping through > the gears. what is going on? anyone else experienced this kind of > failure? i am puzzled, perplexed, pissed and profoundly phrustrated > (needed some aliteration here). > > -- > Brian Fye > 1964 Notch Speedster 2332cc http://www.geocities.com/menacefye/ > 1964 Notchback 1500cc http://www.geocities.com/menacefye/64.html > 1973 Squareback 1904cc http://www.geocities.com/menacefye/73.html > > > > > ------------------------------------------------ > To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> > For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/ > ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/