Alternator bracket question
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Alternator bracket question
I pulled the alternator off the engine today and saw something I would like to replace but need to know what to replace it with. The top bolt of the alternator uses the spacer, goes through the alternator, and into (get this) a strip of thick metal bolted to the block with a nut welded to the other end (a very sloppy weld)-so the top bolt of the alternator screws into the welded nut. So I started looking around the net for alternator braket kits. All of them have the front brackets but none I found have anything for this rear mount. Can anyone please advise on how it should correctly mount to the front of the engine, or should it at all?
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Shane
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If you have a FE and are talking about the looong bolt with the spacer on it, it is supposed to thread into the front of the cylinder head. It sounds to me like the heads or the mounts got swapped sometime in the past. Another possiblity is that a bolt is snapped off in the head , or the threads in the head are wasted and someone welded up a bracket to avoid fixing either it.
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The alternator is mounted like this:
The very long bolt goes in the top with a spacer in it. It goes through the bracket, then the alternator and into the nut welded to the strip of metal.
The short bolt/nut is on the bottom of the alternator and mounts to the adjustment area (dont know the technical term), the slot that lets you release or increase tension on the belt.
The strip of metal is at mounted at roughly 40-45 degree angle. The bolt holding it on it at the top left of front of the head, just under the valve cover. It runs at an angle from upper left to lower right and ends with the welded nut.
I was going to take a picture but it was dark. I couldnt find my grease pen to mark the mount either but I'm going to get one today so I can take the homemade bracket off and see what's behind it.
If someone has stripped the hole out in the cylinder, cant it just be tapped?
Thanks for the help!
Shane
The very long bolt goes in the top with a spacer in it. It goes through the bracket, then the alternator and into the nut welded to the strip of metal.
The short bolt/nut is on the bottom of the alternator and mounts to the adjustment area (dont know the technical term), the slot that lets you release or increase tension on the belt.
The strip of metal is at mounted at roughly 40-45 degree angle. The bolt holding it on it at the top left of front of the head, just under the valve cover. It runs at an angle from upper left to lower right and ends with the welded nut.
I was going to take a picture but it was dark. I couldnt find my grease pen to mark the mount either but I'm going to get one today so I can take the homemade bracket off and see what's behind it.
If someone has stripped the hole out in the cylinder, cant it just be tapped?
Thanks for the help!
Shane
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One other thing, it was mentioned that at one point the cylinders may have been changed out. That is very, very likely. This truck was actually used to drag race and has oodles of performance parts on it (Edlebrock highrise alum intake, Holley 750 4bbl, Comp Cam, dome pistons). With all these parts swapped out, is it likely this could be some performance head and didnt have a mounting hole in a workable area?
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Pics added to my gallery. I took the homemade bracket off and directly behind the welded nut is a threaded hole in the cylinder with something stuck in it, maybe part of the original bolt, cant tell for sure. Do you see any options I have to make this more original?
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Shane
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Shane
