I have not seen this before. The alternator bracket on my current Pantera project came with a modified alternator bracket. Someone sawed off one of the legs for the long bolt that pivots and secures the alternator. Is this something people were doing at some point in time?
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Not to my knowledge; first time I have seen that done. However, the bracket would be superfluous if your were using the flat fire wall kit that moves the alternator outboard of the AC compressor. I suspect that is the explanation.
that's for the reduced bulkhead kit from Kirk Evens.
you buy the kit that uses a sandeen compressor with an alternator pivot to the left
google amerisport industries Kirk Evens.
lets the passenger seat go all the way back
i cut the vertical tab to get to the back right bolt..Kirk wanted the front tab cut and welded to the bracket somehwere incase anyone in the future wanted to bring it back to original.
Dan
Thanks Dan. That's a good explanation. It's still a little confusing on my car because it has the factory bulkhead cover. My hunch is they were going to do the bulkhead reduction since this car was at Kirk's shop before I got it. The sawed off leg is MIA. I will check with Kirk as he probably has a pile of them.
Also, thanks John. You were on the right track.
Steve
free to a good home, i used a grinder not a hacksaw so you would have to place the alternator in the bracket and put a bolt through it before you weld it up.
Awesome! Thanks Dan. PM sent
The donated leg is now TIG welded onto the alternator bracket. I used 7/16" threaded rod to both align the donor leg and set the width of legs to match a stock bracket. There was a large gap between the bracket and the donor leg because of the cutting and grinding that had been done on both pieces. I used a shim of 1/4" steel plate to fill the gap. It looks like the restored bracket will work well. I might do some grinding on the 1/4" shim when I test fit the alternator. Thanks Dan!
Looks Great Steve, should work perfect. I agree some grinding of the 1/4 steel plate might need to be grounded down. Was this done in So. Calif or up north?
Thanks Larry. The bracket is for the car in Oregon and the work was done in SoCal.
