Generator question

[Highbeam]

Thank you for your time folks and sorry for the thread hijack. I'll pop off the end bell and look for corrosion and loose conenctions. I had stumbled upon one of the coleman troubleshooting sites long ago where they pointed out the very high probability of brush wear on my relatively high hour coleman. Also pointed out the second most common mode of permanent failure is that the plastic end bell supports the bearing which supports the tail of the main generator shaft. The plastic doesn't support the bearing well enough and the rotor is allowed to wobbble which then allows it to take out the voltage regulator and then eventually seize. No repairs are recommended once the main shaft has begun wobbling.

The brush fix was my hope since those were cheap and easy.

So to the original poster.... avoid generators whose bell ends are made of plastic. There is a very important bearing out there that needs to be solid.