Yes. The fuse is to protect the wire, (which should be at least 4 GA for this) not the alt. A circuit breaker will be fine. Install it away from the alt, closest to the hot side connection; battery or solenoid.

 

Diameter and the distance between pivot and clamp bolt are two different things.

How much room do you see between the adjuster bracket and the vent fins on the body of your alternator?
Maybe it's the angle, but the pic in post 28 looks pretty tight already.

 

I'd certainly have to acknowledge that.


I already have a 130A 3G I got off a Taurus a year or so ago, and it has 7" ear spacing, as does the 2G on my truck. At that time all the advice was to get the unit from the Thunderbird without much discussion about ear spacing. I determined on my own that the Taurus alt was the same, just indexed differently (more suitably, in my opinion).


Thinking about this, the bracket with the adjusting slot in it is slotted for a 7" mounting alt. You couldn't put an alt with 8.5" spacing on the engine using the factory bracket, and you certainly couldn't adjust it any distance.


Where's the confusion coming from on this?

 

 

I'm aware of that. It was hard to argue getting that freshly remanned 95 amp unit for $20 out of the yard when the 130 amp units looked like they spent time at the bottom of a lake, and were the large ear spacing. Plus it works with the factory 95 amp 3G truck harness I got out of a 351 truck the same day...

It's still an upgrade over a 2G fire hazard.