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On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 22:02, Brad wrote: > Thank you to all that replied. It was very helpfull. I now have some more. > > When I bought the car, it did not charge. It was advertuised as having > a broken belt. I discovered that the battery was installed backwards. I > fixed that, but it still did not charge. I have replaced the voltage reg, > with no luck. I did the test as indicated on Speedy Jim's website > http://www.nls.net/mp/volks/ I determined that my generator was bad. I > bought a new one today. The person at the local VW shop had a bosch for > $125, but said I could buy a rebuilt one for a lot less at AutoZone. I went > there. Their computer had one for a beetle and one for a squareback. They > only had one for the beetle in stock, so I bought it. When I went to > install it, it seemed that the old one was in backwards. I installed it > according to the rotational arrow on it. This puts the commutator toward > the back of the car. I figured the PO installed it backward, after all, the > battery was in backward right? Now I see the Chilton's book shows the type > 3, and the original was in right. Could THIS be the difference in the > squareback vs. beetle model? I do have it installed correctly according to > the directional arrow on it. BTW it is a rebuilt BOSCH generator. WIll > this work out OK for me? I have not put power to it yet, only the > polarizing step listed in the directions. The car has not been run yet. > T-1 generators don't work too well on T-3's. There is no cooling air flow through them. The T-3 gen. has a hole in the side that lines up with a hole in the fan housing. If the battery was in backwards in your car, Polarizing is may have been all that was wrong with you old one. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org