Keith Moore wrote:

(snip) Alternators are notorious for destroying brackets for some strange
reason.

Alternator brackets are an excellent application for rubber "Barry Mount"
type snubbers.

Vibration driven by out of round pulleys and the belt dynamics will
eventually fail most any bracket.  Therefore, give it some "give".

Regards,

Keith (BlackHat) Moore
Long EZ

As Vance  is found of quoting some British engineer; "An ounce of rubber
is worth a pound of engineering." :)

Paul Lamar
 
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