Subject: RE: Arrgghh generator backet cracked
Author: David Whalen
Date: May 21, 2002, 6:13 AM
Post ID: 1710294034
My bracket has been broken for years. I guess it's
broken in a good place. It works and doesn't rattle.
Knock on wood. I remember the generator brackets on
Corvairs used to always break. Sometimes a
strategically placed two by four would help.
dw
--- murp-@aol.com wrote:
Fred,
This thread has been a revelation for me. I
finished putting my Eldo
together last fall, and since then I have noticed a
type of knocking
sound coming from the engine, which stopped after
the engine was warm. I
also have a T3 and have never noticed any noise from
that engine. I had
thought that something in the engine was assembled
incorrectly, and it
really bothered me. I was having nightmares about a
loose bolt on the
big end of a connecting rod, which would come loose
and cause my
expensively rebuilt engine to disintegrate.
After reading the first post on this subject I
realized what my
problem was. I inspected the generator and noticed
that there was
virtually no clearance between the engine case and
the generator pulley.
After removing the generator and bracket, I noticed
that the forward
engine 'web' to which the the front of the bracket
is bolted had worn a
groove in the bottom of the bracket, probably caused
by an over-tight
generator belt. I cut a piece of thin aluminum (from
a Heineken beer
can) which I put under the bracket to provide more
clearance for the
generator. I also shimmed the part where the
locating stud is, using
some soft plastic (I thought this would work better
than rubber).
Although I will not test the fix till tomorrow,
I feel confident
that the rattle and knock will be cured. I will
report back if it is
not.
Brian M.
'74 Eldo
'78 T3
Fred Sahms wrote:All this talk of loose/buzzy generator bracketsprompted me to pull minerunning with the bolts
out and examine it. It shows some evidence ofloose and there is a nice crack from the forwardhole to the edge. Whenthe generator doesn't
I bolted it to the block and put in the generator,Is theis where guys
quite touch the block where the locating pin is.have been adding the rubber?
I am bidding on another bracke on Ebay (Hi Mike!)
73 Eldo in crates
78 T3/949
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