Funny story, now that we're talking pulleys, etc.... I bought the Kirk Evans bulkhead reduction kit years ago. It went on perfectly. Later, I switched to a 351W block, which meant I had to buy new pulleys. The 351C pulleys didn't fit. Plus, I had to modify some of the mounts. No biggie, but I couldn't find a V-belt for the crank-to-water pump that would fit. The Kirk Evans kit doesn't use an idler so the V-belt needs to be a specific size. So, I got the Quella idler. It worked perfectly, but it hit the Kirk Evans bulkhead. So, I modified that. All was fine for quite a while. But I later decided to put normal engine mounts on the car. I had cut mine 1/2" lower, not so much for handling improvement, but for more clearance for the distributor and carburetor. Since then, I had been chasing a weird noise that sounded like a bearing going out. It was coming from the front of the engine. I suspect the idler pulley. It turned out to be the idler rubbing the bulkhead, which fit fine with the engine lowered, but rubbed once I raised the engine where it belongs. Easy fix this time - I found a belt that fit properly, and I removed the idler. -- On 1/6/25, 9:52 AM, "Thomas Tornblom" <thomas@hax.se <mailto:thomas@hax.se>> wrote: Den 2025-01-06 kl. 15:34, skrev Will Kooiman:
The pic is at an angle. It's hard to see how badly it is misaligned.
It's easy to fix, though.
I got one of the modern 130A 3G alternators a few years back and I had to chop about 10mm off of the lower mount to make the belt line up. I'm not sure that my mount is the same as on early cars as it had an Australian 351C with a Bosch alternator originally. Cheers, Thomas _______________________________________________ Detomaso Email List is not managed by POCA Posted emails must not exceed 1.5 Megabytes DeTomaso mailing list -- detomaso@server.detomasolist.com <mailto:detomaso@server.detomasolist.com> To unsubscribe send an email to detomaso-leave@server.detomasolist.com <mailto:detomaso-leave@server.detomasolist.com> To manage your subscription (change email address, unsubscribe, etc.) use the links above. Members who post to this list grant license to the list to forward any message posted here to all past, current, or future members of the list. They also grant the list owner permission to maintain an archive or approve the archiving of list messages.