i currently purchased an 82 california emmission aircooled (rebuilt 40k
1.9)westy with a few bugs that i am currently working out.  one that really
has me stumped is the altenator light. this light will go on with every
start up and go off when i give it a little gas.  maybe a diode gone bad?
in addition, the light will go on at high rpm when i need to shift into
another gear.  once i do shift up the light will go off.  i tried
tightenting the belt with no avail.  anybody got any clues as to what is
going on.  also i have a very loud clacking noise (like lashing valves)
which seems to be coming from the fan. i first thought that it was the
valves but after popping off the valve cover and feeling the valves were
tight i started to look in other directions.  would the lifters or cam
follower make such noises, if so would a compression test reveal problems, i
did a test and compression was 125 all around. i am very confused.  the
noise is most pronounced at idle, when throttling it does increase at a
faster rate then seems to disappear.  finally, i am wondering about lazy oil
pressure. when i had the valve cover off i ran the engine and noticed that
oil was coming out of the push rods very lazily if you will, oil pressure
light never comes on except at intial test. is this common or am i just
paranoid?  i thought oil would be spewing out like crazy.
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