Re: [T3] Charging System Polarization

["Garret Trask" <garret_trask@hotmail.com>]

<x-flowed>After I got everything hooked back up, I started the car and the red light 
went out like I was hoping.  I let it run for a while, and the new VR was 
making a faint chattering noise.  I still had the back seat out so I looked 
back there, and saw smoke rising from the new VR.  So I shut off the car.

I went ahead and did the polarization step (as specified in the Muir 
manual).

After that I started the car again and noticed the chattering and smoking 
had stopped, and the red light was still off so I figured everything was ok 
now.

Any thoughts on this?  Would a chattering and smoking VR be consistent with 
the polarization step being skipped?  Or do I perhaps have a bad VR?  The VR 
brand is "Echlin", I bought it from a local napa auto parts store a year 
ago.  I'd rather have a Bosch, but I don't want to buy another VR unless I 
have to.

Gary

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