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Plan Alternator Installation

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RICHARD PETTY Visits the farm today! He just laughed at my clunker Race Car!

What happens here

The team discusses installing an alternator. They have a used alternator from Chris Meeks at Meeks Auto Recycling, but realize the mounting points and pulley alignment won't work with the current water pump. They examine options for fabricating custom brackets or finding compatible parts to ensure the alternator can be properly installed and driven by the engine.

Goal: Determine how to properly install the alternator for charging the battery.

Tools and materials

  • Used Alternator — To be installed on the engine
  • Wrenches — Loosening and tightening bolts

What they say

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What do you think the next step is? I need a fan. Should got a Going to have to have a fan. Yep. Need a fan to start drawing. If you put the alternator on, you can put electric fan. Yeah. But if not, you can use a manual fan. Well, let's see what we can do on the alternator here, guys. We got the alternator sitting over here. Another donation from Meeks Auto Recycling. And most of these alternators even normally bolt on the heads. Yeah. >> And uh Chris, it looks like you went ahead and started cleaning some of the holes out. All right. Um but, you got to I'm sure uh those holes are normally threaded. I've Yep. >> They look like they are threaded. So, um that's what we'll probably use. Let's see if we can get it on there and I'll start digging around for some belts. Yeah, we're we're going to take this this uh I guess it's a junkyard pull that Chris uh gave gave to the race car I guess enterprise here. So, um trying to figure out how we can get this thing mounted. It looks like Chris, you're trying to break loose one of those bolts that somebody's already been using, it looks like. >> Yeah, I think when we put the motor in this car, we used this to bolt the chain to. So, Okay. Sometimes it's good to have extra parts. Never can have too many I guess you could say pick and pull where is on an engine. That's right. It look like it's going to fit up in there. I'd have a long bolt. This might fit the top here if it would just start, it would hold it in place while we was trying to figure the rest out. So, do these these brackets typically fit? How do these fit? This one normally goes here. >> goes up here. And this one goes on the water pump, so it very well may not work with this setup. Don't like it's going to. Cuz that would go down through the head. Let's see if I can get this just starting and if it'll hold itself up there well. >> This will have us a idea of what we need. So, this is going to be some mock-up uh I ain't sure if this is actually fit. >> Yeah. Not for water pumps that we've got. All right. Now, just let it dangle there and let's see what All right. it looks like. Here. So, y'all can see he's trying to get an idea for his alignment. Um Anything will work cuz of the pulleys and none of that's going >> Yeah. So, what you really want to do is make sure that your your pulleys here and here on your water pump and your crank down on the bottom, all that needs to line up so that it can drive itself. Correct.…

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