<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Chris, Ck your regulator! According to Lodi rebuilders when your regulator is bad it will make your generator brushes wear due to incorrect voltage.<BR>I am looking to replace generator after second one in less than one year. First one was original known to have been in storage for 15 yrs, and after around 3,00 miles the bearings locked up and threw the whole generator sideways causing me to have to buy the second one "was rebuild by robert bosh to the tune of my left arm. Im still 6 volt. and now after less than one year and now without any warning bearings locked up and threw it sideways too.. Yes my vent was right and dot was lined up with line on generator. I am stuck dead with no transportation till Sat .<BR>:P<BR>Im going to try to reach Jim adney to see if he has an armature, so I can get mine rebuilt.<BR>I do not have funds to convert to 12vlt at this tiime.<BR>Happy New Year.. Good Luck!!<BR>Kelleigh<BR><BR>
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<B>From: </B>"Chris Sheridan" <cscsheridan@gmail.com><BR><B>To: </B>"type3-vwtype3 org" <type3-vwtype3.org@lists.vwtype3.org><BR><B>Sent: </B>Thursday, January 3, 2013 12:44:58 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>[T3] daily driver log 2012<BR><BR>All in All it was a good year for my commuting car thanks to this list.<BR>From January through April I had my daily 50 mile commute which proceeded<BR>pretty smoothly. I remember having some battery troubles in January but was<BR>only out of commission for a couple of days where I had to rent a car. On<BR>April 30th I ended my job in favor of a new job with a shorter commute (20<BR>miles) and took a week between jobs to renew the front end of my Fastback.<BR>That turned into a 2 week project for a few reasons and I learned some<BR>stuff.<BR><BR>1) Ball Joints don't always just pop right off.<BR>2) Start early if you work in the street and need to have the wheels back<BR>on by dark<BR>3) Tie Rod ends are unique and you may think you bought the correct one but<BR>you won't know until it's all apart in the street<BR>4) The Steering doughnut for a fastback is not the same as the one sold on<BR>Ebay, they have a different diameter<BR>5) Your ball joint tensioning bolts will probably have stripped threads<BR>when you take them off. You can buy exact replicas at<BR> Bowline in Berkeley, if you bring in the old ones for comparison<BR>6) You will need to come back in and retighten everything a couple days<BR>after you're done.<BR>7) I bought an alternator and planned to convert per the online<BR>instructions published by a listmember here, but ran out of time and was<BR>stuck on the 'fabricate metal strips to fashion a saddle for the new<BR>alternator' so I stuck with the stock generator for now.<BR><BR>now of course you can always learn more..so here are the questions I have<BR>today<BR><BR>On the way home last night the gen light came on and stayed on. I got home<BR>and saw that my brushes were worn way down and I replaced them in short<BR>order and i'm back on the road today. How long do your generator brushes<BR>last? 7 months seems short. Do they wear faster if you drive faster?<BR><BR>2) anyone have any tricks for keeping the wind from moving the side view<BR>mirrors?<BR><BR>thanks,<BR>chris<BR>-------------- next part --------------<BR>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>URL: <http://lists.vwtype3.org/pipermail/type3-vwtype3.org/attachments/20130103/2b08b221/attachment.htm><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>VWType3.Org mailing list - type3@vwtype3.org<BR>http://lists.vwtype3.org/listinfo.cgi/type3-vwtype3.org<BR>Contact gregm@vwtype3.org if you need help with the list.<BR></div></body></html>