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On 31 Jan 2004 at 14:51, Garret Trask wrote: > 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. There is a resistor on the under side of the VR which will get pretty hot. This is just oil vaporizing off it. This is normal, although it is seldom noticed. > I went ahead and did the polarization step (as specified in the Muir > manual). You didn't need to. We hope you didn't hurt anything. > Any thoughts on this? Would a chattering and smoking VR be consistent > with the polarization step being skipped? No > 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. I'm not fond of that brand. It will last a couple of years and then you can get a decent one. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org