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 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

 

Come on I know there are a few people out there who has done this..

 

Ill get a pic to you this weekend all you need is 2 small pcs 1/2 alum and two 3/8 rod ends near 0 dollar mount.

 

That's what I'm talking about. Preciate it tons.

 

Any part number of the belt you are running on this setup? Thanks!

 

Also very interested in this because its all I will be running most likely..

 

ttt for some pictures...very interested in seeing this as well

 

I got a pic of my Vega setup somewhere around here, I will post when I find it. I had to fab up an alternator bracket to make it all work!!!

Mike

 

awesome! just alt? right? Post up when you can. Thanks for checking the thread

 

Looking forward to seeing the pic(s). I am wanting to only run an alt. and water pump..

 

here are some old pics of mine, different engine now but same belt set up, works great:

 

is this the truck bracket? If so it sits the alt too high for mine. I got a 87 camaro with a 4" cowl. This i believe will hit my hood....

 

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.

 

That would be great! I will get my cowl measured and see what I'm looking at. I don't think its gonna be wide enough but.. I'm not 100% sure.

 

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

 

What kind of SBC bracket was it? just a stock bracket? Is that the ls alternator?

did you have any kind of support bracket on the back side of the alt so it would not flex with the belt on?

 

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

 

Awesome! That's what I need!

 

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.