sammy
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| posted on 8/12/07 at 06:00 PM |
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Alternator belt clearance
Hi,
The alternator belt comes within about 3 or 4mm of the chassis, could this cause a problem?
 
belt clearance
Cheers!
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bonzoronnie
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Belt position
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
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 8/12/07 at 06:08 PM |
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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.
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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madteg
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| posted on 8/12/07 at 07:01 PM |
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belt
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.
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BenB
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| posted on 8/12/07 at 07:23 PM |
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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!!!
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sammy
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| posted on 8/12/07 at 08:12 PM |
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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!
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madteg
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| posted on 8/12/07 at 09:54 PM |
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alternator
Have you throught about a smaller alternator, ?
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 8/12/07 at 09:59 PM |
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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?
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02GF74
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 12:46 PM |
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can you mount alternator on the other side - or does it have the same clearance issue?
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Peteff
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| posted on 10/12/07 at 01:24 PM |
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Could you fit a longer belt and turn the alternator upwards?
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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