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Re: What did you do to your truck today!
Well guys, I appreciate all your suggestions, and I will further to try tomorrow. In another forum I found a lot information and found another way to mount the alternator. They suggest I use a different mounting brackets you can mount at mid point on the passenger side with a special lower bracket that mounts to the back of the alternator that mount off the water pump. They use these brackets with engines that don't have the drilled holes in the heads. I just might do that instead. I figured out why the bolt broke in the first place. the PO put a different engine in the truck and sort of slapped it together. It didn't have the bottom bracket that goes off the water pump, so more or less the alternator was just hanging off the top bracket and created tension and that top bolt snapped, so I will get the bottom bracket and will probably get that med point bracket and be done with it.
I will post my results either way in case anyone else gets in the same situation.
Thanks again one and all.. Great forum.......
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