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Originally Posted by hdff
Other than the pulley did you have to make any other modifications to the bracket using the cs144??? With the bearing issues I am considering going with the CS 144, I saw someone mentioned that a 93 Chevy Cheyenne with a heavy duty alternator would be the proper alternator to use. Also a friend of mine told me he ran the positive main wire from the alternator to the hot side of the starter solenoid . Where are the big wire from the battery comes down, have you ever heard of that and would that work.
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I had to file the slot on the top bracket to be slightly wider, to take the larger screw with metric threads. I ran connected the stock main wire that goes to the taped junction by the driver side headlight.
If I were running heavy draw accessories, I would run a separate 10 gauge wire to a junction block on the driver side fender, similar to the junction block on the passenger side fender by the battery. In my re-wired configuration that is what I will do. I will have a 6 inch 14 gauge fusible link attached to the 10 gauge wire, and a 6 inch 16 gauge fusible link attached to the stock 12 gauge wire. At the alternator junction block on the driver side fender, any wires I attach there that are smaller than 10 gauge will get their own appropriate smaller gauge fusible link (2 wire sizes smaller or 4 gauge numbers greater).
I don't see any value in running any extra wires to the starter solenoid, and that would interfere with my plan to continue using the stock ammeter on the dash.