<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_1414601446513_23027">Sorry for the "no subject".</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23046" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23048" dir="ltr">Car has started...mysteriously...just after a battery load and whatever other test the auto shop did. It passed easily. Test took 40 minutes...so maybe it got charged too? Forgot to ask. But my tester, before their test(s), showed all cells at the top of the "good" range.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23052" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23061" dir="ltr">The generator light, it turns out, stayed on when running because a ground wire at Voltage Regulator was kind of hidden, and unattached. A loose end, so to speak. <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23063" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23066" dir="ltr">Now, everything's even better than it was before the hesitations happened, with the eventual stall out. Trouble is....I don't know what caused the stall out.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23079" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23080" dir="ltr">Different and clean trigger contacts didn't get it started.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23081" dir="ltr">Neither did change of VR.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23082" dir="ltr">nor...different distributor cap and rotor,,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23095" dir="ltr">nor...cleaning, securing all wiring contacts,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_25656" dir="ltr">nor...cleaning of generator armature where brushes touch,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_25658" dir="ltr">nor...change of brushes to ones that are hardly worn, <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23101" dir="ltr">nor...different, clean, points,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23097" dir="ltr">nor...different starter-solenoid.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23099" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23109" dir="ltr">But, bingo, a starter test did the trick. Mystery.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23120" dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23185" dir="ltr">From: "J. Jonik" <<a style="" class="" href="mailto:j_jonik@yahoo.com">j_jonik@yahoo.com</a>><br style="" class="">To: Type 3 <<a style="" class="" href="mailto:type3-vwtype3.org@lists.vwtype3.org">type3-vwtype3.org@lists.vwtype3.org</a>><br style="" class="">Subject: [T3] (no subject)<br style="" class="">Message-ID:<br style="" class=""> <<a style="" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_22442" href="mailto:859720448.517306.1414367829880.JavaMail.yahoo@jws10073.mail.ne1.yahoo.com">859720448.517306.1414367829880.JavaMail.yahoo@jws10073.mail.ne1.yahoo.com</a>><br style="" class=""> <br style="" class="">Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">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.Slightly
undercharged battery wouldn't cause the car to stall out like that, I
don't think.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">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.<br style="" class="">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 style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><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 id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23049" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1414601446513_23051" dir="ltr"><br></div></div></body></html>