Hi,

The alternator belt comes within about 3 or 4mm of the chassis, could this cause a problem?


belt clearance

Cheers!

Hi, that looks a little bit on the tight side to me.

You may find that the belt will make contact with the crossbrace when it flexes.

Ronnie

far too close, looks like you can get away with a shorter belt. The engine will move on it's mounts much more than that.

Looks like it would be easy to use shorter belt and change ajusting bracket, when you rev a v8 it will twist in the direction of the chassis sorry for bad news but may as well put it wright now.

With that set-up you'll naturally get some orbitting (ie the belt will try to revert to being a circle and bulge outwards between the pulleys).... It's going to be close... Add in the engine rocking a bit on the engine mounts when you give it the beans and there's going to be some rubbing....

Then again, if you've bought that belt and you've already set it up that way, you could always run it that way and change it if rubs!!! Pragmatic answer = suck it and see!!!

Thanks for the replies, a shorter belt is a good idea but unfortunately doesn't give any more clearance without modifying the alternator bracket itself.

I think I'll go ahead and modify the alternator bracket since it's one I made up anyway (took me a weekend to design and fabricate it!). Hopefully wont need changing too much.


Cheers!

Have you throught about a smaller alternator, ?

Fit the bottom hose first , you don't want the alternator to be where the hose needs to be. Is it possible to fit the alternator on the other side of the engine?

can you mount alternator on the other side - or does it have the same clearance issue?

Could you fit a longer belt and turn the alternator upwards?