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Art, that's not a bad idea, I think I WILL scrounge some new brushes and keep the old regulator as a spare. And your top picture looks very much like the contact inside my alternator, which I did clean before installing the new assy.
I don't dispute that there was most likely some gremiln lurking about, waiting for Murphy to kick it in the a$$ when least convenient. I was just trying to figure out why a problem in this assembly would cause ALL idiot lights to glow instead of just the charge indicator.
I remember on a 1969 MGB-GT I had a few years ago that I drove for months with the charge indicator faintly glowing (just the charge indicator) and all of a sudden the light quit glowing. Being the eternal optimist that I USED TO BE I was grateful that it had fixed itself until I got out of class one night about 10:00 and the battery was dead! Called wife.com and she brought out the jumper cables. I got the car started and made it about 5 miles and it refused to run. Jump, leave cables hooked up for a few minutes to charge, drive 5 miles, jump... This procedure was repeated for the 20 miles it took to get home!
The problem fixed itself by burning out the idiot light! It turned out to be bad solder joints on the diode stack in the alternator. I reslodered, put in a new idiot light and all was right with the world. Man, I hate Lucas electrics...
Later,
Justin
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