Polarizing your regulator

[nomad]

Can installing a new 12 volt voltage regulator in your 57 Chevrolet and not polarizing it , cause damage to your original style generator with the built in power steering pump ? My friend just did this in his 58 Impala and we drove 4 hours to the Hershey fall meet Car Show and 10 miles to our destination I smelled something burning and then his generator light came on . We made it to the camp ground , and it seemed that if you manually closed the upper batt. points in the voltage regulator the light would go off but , as soon as you revved up the rpm's it would throw the batt. upper points open . Someone their said that if the generator is not putting out enough current it will not be able to keep them closed ?