I pulled the regulator and cleaned the contacts again with some card stock; everything looks okay to my untrained eye. Nothing obvious anyway. I then turned the adjusting screw ccw, to loosen tension on the spring, one turn. Reinstalled and ran the engine at first with the field wire disconnected from the VR ( the field wire appears good with no shorts). At this point the voltage did not rise above about 14.5. Reconnected the field wire and the voltage was above 17 at a fast idle. I tried 2 more times turning the voltage down at the regulator with no change. Any suggestions as to what I can try next?
Lee.
