I am not Mark, but if all things were equal on the two engines, I would guess the bus engine is better tuned by a tiny fraction. How's that for no luck at all? ----- Original Message ----- From: <VWTOO@xxxxxxx> To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 8:20 PM Subject: [tcb] Mark, need your insight > Mark, > I ended changing the gen. in the bus, but before I did, the gen. light on > the > beetle came on. So while I'm working on 2 of them I also had 2 not fully > charged batteries. I found that a battery that would start the bus would > not > start the beetle. I checked the starter connections and cleaned them. It > is an > auto starter on the beetle. Will that draw more? Anything else to check? > I > appreciate any feedback. > Brent > > > >