R-V8 Into A Exmo Project

[speedtripledan]

i did as nick described you should get a belt mine was 836mm long when i fitted my alt in the same location.

[Shaft]

No water pump though Dan, so will be a tad shorter.

Rich..... Early V8 Range Rovers ran a seperate vee belt from the water pump to the aircon pump. Should be about right looking at your 2 pulley diameters.

I might have one in the garage.... Will look later when I'm home from work.

[richardm6994]

Cheers guys. I've measured up and the ideal belt size is 695mm...& the closest I can buy is 700mm so I ordered it last night.

[Shaft]

Looking at the front facing picture Rich, if you fashion the bottom alternator mount as a rigid type and adjust the belt tension by means of a curved slot in said bracket, you ought to be able to mount the VR sensor from it also??

[richardm6994]

Nick...what do they say about great minds thinking alike! or is it the one about fools never differ

 

My plan is to make said bottom bracket to mount the VR sensor plus have a fixing point on it for a belt tension, however rather than using a curved slot type I'm going to make one of them threaded adjusters with the rose joints at each end (basically copy the things people sell on ebay for the pinto alternators).

[richardm6994]

Very annoyed tonight! I've spent a couple of hours a night over this last 3 days working on the alternator bracket.

 

Pulleys lined up perfect, welded the bracket, trimmed it down considerably in size, shaped it and got it looking better than I'd expected....happy bunny.....

 

Then as an after-thought....I'll weld a small gusset plate behind the angle to give it more rigidity.......WRONG!!! When I put the bracket back onto the engine the welding of the gusset plate has twisted the bracket out of shape and now the pulleys are miles out!!!

 

Onto bracket number 2......

[fry61]

Isn't that where the 18" spanner & the box of odd washers come out to play?

[richardm6994]

That was my first thought and I tried it but couldn't get the pulleys back in-line and square to one another....for the sake of a proper job I've decided to remake it.

[Shaft]

Tack your gussets first Rich! Schoolboy error my young padawan.

[richardm6994]

Tack your gussets first Rich! Schoolboy error my young padawan.

 

I know, I know! Currently standing in the corner with the dunce cap on! although I did tack one corner to hold it in place and then started my full welds from the opposite corner....

 

Frustrating thing is that the bl00dy bracket didn't even need a gusset! I was just trying to be clever!!

 

Oh we'll.....I must remember that we do this for fun

[richardm6994]

After making the bracket template I have now made the final bracket....I'm leaving the bottom bracket until I've taken the engine back out because I'll have better access to line it up etc...

 

[Guest Ian & Carole]

Think it might need a gusset.

[richardm6994]

ian...today's anagram is........bucking follocks

[Shaft]

Looks a bit heavy that there bracket does.... I reckon some nice lightening holes in the head /bracket mating face would work a treat.

[richardm6994]

nice idea, and it would look good too! I'm thinking maybe cutting a triangle out between the three bolts?