Thread: Alternator bracket question,,

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

I have the alternator on the right side in my pickup, 351W engine. I just fabbed my own brackets and used a 3/8 ID pice of tubing to space it out on the head. There's a pic of the engine in my gallery.

As Dave S. has said, space out from the head, there are usually two bolt holes there, one of which is 7/16 - use that one. Use an ARP or at a minimum a grade 8 bolt - the alternator hangs on it. You can buy an adjusting bracket from Summit or Jegs or, better yet, take a walk in your local junkyard and find something that looks close. It will need to be bolted to a water pump fastener. You might even find a real 302/351/5.0/5.8 bracket from some vehicle that will work, heads are a mirror image as far as bolting and bracketing.

A temporary spacer that I once made up for a dressed out engine was cut from a piece of chrome water feed pipe from Home Depot. tho the final one ended up aluminum(from a 302)

yup, i've made brackets before to locate them on the upper mounting pount for the powersteering using the two holes on the water pump and the head... you can also mount it down below the crank pulley as were some powersteering pumps