I always say, get the real  Bosch rebuild. Any rebuilder can have a bad
one but the Bosch rebuilds, rebuilt by Bosch and in a Bosch box are the
best bet IMHO.  AL33X is the most universal replacement for watercooled
VWs. I get mine at Van-Cafe, a Vanagon community supporter.

http://www.van-cafe.com/vanagon_parts.jsp?pa=p&p=750788463&pct=1351036891&ct=1965673259

Bus Depot has them on the East Coast.

Mark

Jim Felder wrote:
> Thanks for the info everyone, the reman (to answer Mark's question)
> was bad almost out of the box. I put it on, started it up, and it
> seemed OK. Two days later (today) my wife went to drive it, and
> NOTHING. It had drained the battery so low that it wouldn't even run
> the digital clock! Figure that.
>
> I asked about the wiring earlier because I wanted to make sure I had
> not wired it up wrong. I hadn't. Luckily there was another one in town
> and I got it installed this afternoon. It's the third reman on the
> car, all free after the first one. The one on the car that's working
> now is not the same brand as the bad one I installed previously.
>
> Jim
>