Anyone running just alt and water pump on truck motor?
02-10-2008, 03:31 PM
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Anyone running just alt and water pump on truck motor? If anyone is running just alt and water pump post pics so I can see. I want to see some cheap methods. It will only be a temporary set up until I get my s&p brackets.
I need the alt to sit lower than stock location.
I need the alt to sit lower than stock location.
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02-10-2008, 09:12 PM
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i did it this way. if you can find, or have a stock truck bracket, just knock off the bottom half where the PS pump is. belt routing: crank, tensioner, under WP, alt, crank.
Gary
BTW leave all 3 bolt locations when you cut it, i knocked it down to 2, and it flexes a little
Gary
BTW leave all 3 bolt locations when you cut it, i knocked it down to 2, and it flexes a little
02-12-2008, 01:33 AM
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Any part number of the belt you are running on this setup? Thanks!
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02-18-2008, 10:31 PM
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02-19-2008, 04:20 PM
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The truck alternator and bracket clears my stock flat El Camino hood....not by a lot, but it does clear, so I would think a 4" cowl on a 3rd gen hood would clear it as long as the cowl is 22" wide or wider. IIRC the alt is 11" out from the CL of the motor. If you need a more exact measurement just let me know.
02-19-2008, 10:54 PM
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The truck alternator and bracket clears my stock flat El Camino hood....not by a lot, but it does clear, so I would think a 4" cowl on a 3rd gen hood would clear it as long as the cowl is 22" wide or wider. IIRC the alt is 11" out from the CL of the motor. If you need a more exact measurement just let me know.
02-20-2008, 09:53 PM
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Hope this helps!
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02-20-2008, 11:46 PM
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Here are the pictures that I said I would get. I know this is of an F body pump, but the same bracket will work on a truck pump with some spacers. These are homemade and the starting point was one of them SBC universal alternator brackets and I added some other pieces here and there!
Hope this helps!
Mike
Hope this helps!
Mike
did you have any kind of support bracket on the back side of the alt so it would not flex with the belt on?
02-21-2008, 10:56 PM
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The whole setup is fairly rigid, really yanked on the belt trying to induce some deflection in the alternator, and it was rock solid the whole time!!!
Hope this helps
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The alternator is the stock alternator that came with the motor out of a 2000 Silverado. The alternator is bolted through into the head on the bottom alternator bolt hole. The bracket that I started with is a universal small block short water pump bracket, it actually was one of those chrome cheapy brackets and the rest were all hand made. Took about 2 hours to get it right.
The whole setup is fairly rigid, really yanked on the belt trying to induce some deflection in the alternator, and it was rock solid the whole time!!!
Hope this helps
Mike
The whole setup is fairly rigid, really yanked on the belt trying to induce some deflection in the alternator, and it was rock solid the whole time!!!
Hope this helps
Mike
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I am running a 6.0 truck engine with the stock alt and all I did was use the right side mounting hole for the tensioner and shimmed it out until the pulleys lined up and used a piece of 1/4 inch by 1 1/2 plate that was 5 1/2 inches long from the left hole to the left mounting hole(again from the tensioner) and made a duplicate piece that for the front side and a two inch length of round tube to space it on the bottom. I ditched the stock tensioner and used a jeep tensioner that mounted on the bottom bolt hole of the left side mount. You will need a 5.5 m10x1.5 bolt to run through the tensioner, front side plate, round tube and rear plate and into the stock tensioner hole on the left side. It is way strong and you have an alternator that sits lower than the throttle body and on the passenger side of the engine. Wow that sounds confusing but hopefully you get what I am saying.