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Well, the oil leak was not really an oil leak it was the massive case pressures caused by blowby from the hole in the #3 piston, all upper engine components were replaced during this repair. As for luck , could be I do not know if the T-3 spirits are causing all of my broke stuff, maybe some holy water and some prayers can cure the luck or at least exorcise some demons. I have checked the charging system wiring and also checked for shorts in the whole car and all clean . I replaced the voltage regulator twice. The first one, the contacts were worn away (burned), then burned the new German one, the contacts were fused, I guess too much current from charging a very dead large battery. I finally bought a Bosch electronic voltage regulator, never again will I have problems with burned or fuses contacts, the new part just drops in. I always check the charging system with a ammeter to see if excess current causing premature worn brushes or damaged regulator, always looks ok but maybe I did not catch the problem. I do not have overly power hungary systems, lights only use 55/65 watts , stereo always turned to low since speakers sound crappy now, I do have fans to cool the oil coolers but they should not draw much current. My bad generator pile is getting bigger, I have burned/pitted 3 generators, physcally I could feel them getting hot, on one, the comutator has worn so out of round that the brushes bobbed up and down like if they were on a cam, another melted the solder inside I thought it was caused by a worn 1200 AMP battery , got a new battery (600 amp) and still roasted the solder on another. The begining of this year I had two generators that gave lots of sparks from the brush to comutator contacts, the brushes wore every week or a few days more or 1000 miles . I replaced it with a Bosch rebuilt generator that had the brushes sparking right after I installed it , the generator light flickered after two weeks, this has a one year warranty , I kept it in the trunk, I will return it today for another, I replaced it with another from my blue Fasty, and this one did not spark at all when I installed it , it charged well and did not heat up. I used this generator for a month until my engine blew . This generator seemed to have been reciently rebuilt. Upon repairing my engine, the generator dropped a copper segment from the comutator, this destroyed the brush mount and the comutator wires. When my engine blew oil , I think the epoxy that holds the copper segments probably desolved. I finally got another from the junkyard and this seems to work fine, I am just wondering 'for how long ?' I am going to pickup another rebuilt Bosch generator today because of warranty. Still in search of reliability in the charging system , may need to eventually switch to the VW alternator conversion, will have to modify the tin though. LEON MARTINEZ SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org