19Feb

Back at it!

19 Feb 2023 Eric Hansen

No good deed goes unpunished. My pal Dave is swapping my old 258 for a 360, which needs bracketry. Rather than pay top dollar for ratty old brackets off FleaBay, and since he’s become quite adept at fabrication, we talked and I offered to pull my alternator bracketry and make tracings/measurements to give him something to go on. Well, I pulled my alternator brackets and drew up the plans, and along the way of reinstalling, I now can’t get two bolts back in (one interferes with the water pump pulley), and I lost one of the bolts that holds my passenger side fender onto the grille… inside the grille itself. Also stabbed myself with the caliper (not bad, just pissed me off). So tomorrow, gotta re-reinstall the alternator bracketry and find that missing bolt just to get back to where I was when I started today.

Here’s the bottom alternator bracket. It was the easier one to remove, but after I called Dave, discovered he already has one of those. OK… moving on.
Here’s the upper alternator bracket, with the top bolt that won’t clear the water pump pulley to come out. OK – looks like I’m pulling the belts, fan, and pulley just to get that bolt out. Yay!
Here’s the upper bracket. Traced it out, measured everything, and tossed it all back onto the engine… just to have that top bolt not want to go back in the rest of the way. Guh. Why me?
While I was at it, I took this pic so Dave could have an idea of what a bracket for the throttle cable should look like. He should be able to come up with something just with this pic.