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Date:         Sun, 18 Mar 2001 15:33:09 -0800
Reply-To:     patty and danny <balodis_cabe@HOTMAIL.COM>
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From:         patty and danny <balodis_cabe@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      alternator
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I am going to put a Jetta or Golf Alternator in my '81 Westy but I have some questions before I go out and find one. Does anyone know what year the golfs or jettas switched to 90 amp alternators instead of 65 amp alternators? I think it was around '83 but that's just a guess from looking it up at Schucks. Also, through the years did the alternators stay the same in size and shape for those cars? To give you an idea of what I'm doing, I trying to do this - http://volksweb.relitech.com/90alt.htm My van is an '81 Westy though and it doesn't appear that the jettas had 90 amp alternators in that year. Golfs seemingly didn't even appear until '85. If anybody has done this or knows a great deal about these cars, I'm just wondering how selective I need to be in deciding what year Jetta or Golf I can take the alternator from and still successfully install it in my '81 Westy.

Thanks for any help you can give, I know this probably seems like the stupidist, easiest task ever and I'm asking all these questions.

Danny '81 Westy


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