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With my turbo setup comes the need for a lot of room on the driver side. I did have my alternator in the typical f-body location, down at the bottom of the engine on the driver side. I am going to move it to the only available spot which is up high on the passenger side.
After a bunch of trial and error I figured out how I am going to do it (unless someone see's a reason this won't work).
If you notice there are only two mounts on the alternator. I am going to use one as a pivot and one will be hooked up to a turnbuckle so I can manually adjust tension on the belt (I am moving the alternator to where the auto-tensioner used to be).
Since there will obviously be a lot more pressure on that one mount I am going to make a piece that will incorporate the extra mount hole on the water pump and tie it into the mount. If you look at the picture above you will see where I have the bolt just sticking out, it (along with the pivot bolt) will go through something that looks like this:
The problem I am having is where to find a turnbuckle to use. The one in the above picture is just a crappo one from Lowes that I would never trust. I need it to be about 5 inches eye to eye in it's closed position and then have another 2 inches in adjustablility.
Anyone got any idea on where to find a heavy duty turn buckle, probably in 5/16th thread or so, that has enough capacity to hold the pressure of the belt tension (as it will be acting as a belt tensioner).
Thanks.
After a bunch of trial and error I figured out how I am going to do it (unless someone see's a reason this won't work).
If you notice there are only two mounts on the alternator. I am going to use one as a pivot and one will be hooked up to a turnbuckle so I can manually adjust tension on the belt (I am moving the alternator to where the auto-tensioner used to be).
Since there will obviously be a lot more pressure on that one mount I am going to make a piece that will incorporate the extra mount hole on the water pump and tie it into the mount. If you look at the picture above you will see where I have the bolt just sticking out, it (along with the pivot bolt) will go through something that looks like this:
The problem I am having is where to find a turnbuckle to use. The one in the above picture is just a crappo one from Lowes that I would never trust. I need it to be about 5 inches eye to eye in it's closed position and then have another 2 inches in adjustablility.
Anyone got any idea on where to find a heavy duty turn buckle, probably in 5/16th thread or so, that has enough capacity to hold the pressure of the belt tension (as it will be acting as a belt tensioner).
Thanks.
i'll probably just do it like you've got yours since i've already got the right normal taps.
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