<VV> Gen Light on, (and bright)

[JRVIDRINE at aol.com]

Folks,  
 
I was helping a friend work on his 1961 700 this weekend.  It has been  out 
of commission for about 8 months.  Our first task was to repair a  leaking 
Powerglide shift cable.  We got that done and he mentioned that he  had heard an 
odd engine noise the last time that it had run.  We attempted  to crank it up 
(he had just put in a new battery) but it wouldn't start.   We noticed that 
there was no power to anything so we checked the battery and it  was good.  A 
little searching showed that the connections were bad.   We got a new neutral 
cable with terminal end and replaced the terminal on the  positive cable.  There 
is a wire from the voltage regulator to the positive  cable which was pretty 
ratty.  We replaced that wire and then cranked the  car up.  The car ran 
(roughly) and made a fair amount of noise including  what may be a clattering 
lifter.  In any case we got it to where it would  run fair.  My friend told me that 
the generator light was on  (bright).  I asked him if it had been on before he 
shut it down.  He  told me no.  I am wondering if there is a problem with the 
polarity of the  generator after the work we did.  Any thoughts on this will 
be  appreciated.
 
Thanks
Randy Vidrine
Branch, LA (worked on my buddy's car in Rayne, LA)