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Old 02-01-2012, 05:04 AM
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Originally Posted by wrench87 View Post
so you are just running the bolt and spacer to the block and not the bottom mount that mounts to the waterpump?.
Right. The alternator just rotates around the bottom bolt, with the bottom bolt acting as the mid-point of a circle. The top bracket is the portion of the circumference of the circle that tightens up the belt by adjusting the total distance from the water pump and balancer pulleys. Super simple design.
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