<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13300">Thing is....though I got car started, I don't know why. And I don't know why it cut out and stalled in the first place...with some previous hesitations while driving, and that suspicious radio static.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13460" dir="ltr">Slightly undercharged battery wouldn't cause the car to stall out like that, I don't think.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13413" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13415" dir="ltr">And now I don't know the check list to go through to find why Gen. Light stays on. I'll see what the "idiot" book has to say when I get back to the car.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13481" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13483" dir="ltr">And horn still doesn't work. I keep thinking I did something wrong under steering wheel when trying to get horn working right. (It was honking when I hit certain bumps on the road.) Something shorted? Something draining battery a bit when parked overnight?<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13332"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13387"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414366602141_13382" dir="ltr"><br style="" class="">Message: 3<br style="" class="">Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:23:54 -0500<br style="" class="">From: "Jim Adney" <<a style="" class="" href="mailto:jadney@vwtype3.org">jadney@vwtype3.org</a>><br style="" class="">To: <a style="" class="" href="mailto:type3@vwtype3.org">type3@vwtype3.org</a><br style="" class="">Subject: Re: [T3] Re/ Car Wont Start<br style="" class="">Message-ID: <<a style="" class="" href="mailto:544CF5EA.5296.26D690@jadney.vwtype3.org">544CF5EA.5296.26D690@jadney.vwtype3.org</a>><br style="" class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">On 25 Oct 2014 at 20:39, J. Jonik wrote:<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">> I lost a little screw...one that attaches a generator brush.?? But<br style="" class="">> another spare screw for that replaced the lost one.? Nothing missing in<br style="" class="">> generator.??? Trouble is...that little lost screw MAY still be in the<br style="" class="">> generator, and won't shake out. I understand there IS a magnet or two<br style="" class="">> inside there.? Is that right?? If that screw is stuck on it (or one of<br style="" class="">> them), would that explain the Gen Light staying on??? (There's no<br style="" class="">> binding turning the generator by hand.)<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">There's no actual magnet inside the generator, but the housing and <br style="" class="">pole pieces are slightly magnetic, so it's POSSIBLE that the screw is <br style="" class="">in there, but I doubt it.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">> Will I have to take apart the generator to be sure that lost screw<br style="" class="">> isn't inside?<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">I don't recommend it. There are tricks to taking it apart and putting <br style="" class="">it back together to get everything working correctly and not shorting <br style="" class="">out.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">> Re/ Voltage Regulator.?? I did happen to put a spare one in during the<br style="" class="">> "discovery" process, but it had no effect getting car started. ? Maybe<br style="" class="">> it wasn't a good one? ? Could the odd symptom of having DIM,<br style="" class="">> headlights and tail lights have been caused by bad voltage<br style="" class="">> regulator??? If not, what else? <br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">The VR and generator are completely out of the picture when you're <br style="" class="">trying to start your engine. They don't do anything until the engine <br style="" class="">is running. If ALL your lights were dim with the engine running that <br style="" class="">could be a bad VR. If ALL your lights are dim with the engine off, <br style="" class="">that would just be a somewhat discharged battery.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">If only SOME of your lights are dim, engine running or not, that <br style="" class="">means there's a bad connection somewhere in the circuit that supplies <br style="" class="">only THOSE lights.</div><div style="" class="" dir="ltr"><br style="" class=""></div></div></body></html>