testing the fit of a Ford alt. with "recontoured" main mount and a short homemade rear bracket. Used the straight lower arm with a spacer between it and the alt. Once this is tried in the car, I'll post an update. May have to make a curved lower arm to allow a longer range of adjustment. Tried to keep mounts stock looking.  Barry in Manitoba

Barry     Looks good.  I like the idea of Ford only parts on upgrades.  The upper arm looks like an original Y-block generator arm.  How did you re-contour the upper arm?  Thanks,  Bob 

AKA   Bob-93021

Barry- Looks good. I did about the same thing on my car. I straighten the rear bracket and cut off ear on front mount, welded them together so now they are one piece. Put spacer in front of alternator to align belt.

Ol'ford nutCentral Iowa

56 Vic w/292 & 4 spd.

Bob...  Main bracket reshaping..........  all I did was clamp it in the vice and apply a little( ok,..big) hammer technique while holding it with a big crescent wrench to bend it back. .....few trips back and forth to the old motor for alignment. Once it's in the car,I'll repost...still think a curved adjustment arm will be needed.  Barry

Hello Barry! I just did a search for "alternator brackets" and there are several topics with pics that might give you a little help with yours.

  

Barry, nice work.  Ol Ford Nut, your handiwork is very close to mine.  I had to fab a high mount to clear the front motor mount adapter.  If you take the alt. in Barry's pic and rotate it about 180 degrees so the adjuster is up, that is where my alt. rides.

Mike, located in the Siskiyou mountains, Southern, OR 292 powered 1946 Ford 1/2 ton, '62 Mercury Meteor, '55 Country Squire (parting out), '64 Falcon, '54 Ford 600 tractor.

Barry      The BFH tool .  Exactly as I suspected.  Yes you will probably need a curved lower adjustment arm.  Thanks,  Bob

AKA   Bob-93021

I will do something similar when I put the 292 in the 55,I dont want to go back to a generator since I will have a decent sound system that requires way more power then a generator can handle.

Butchering up everything I can get my hands on in Dayton Ohio

Yours looks good. I used the stock bracket, 1969 Mustang 351 alternator with air conditioning (has two pulleys - front one lines up with damper), long mounting bolt for Mustang alt. and cut the aluminum spacer down to fit between stock 292 gen bracket. Needed to lengthen stock lower mounting adjustment arm. Used 1969 falcon v-8 wiring harness (plug-in disconnect near alt) that mounts the regulator (modern transistor type from NAPA) on passenger side. I'm new at this so haven't figured out how to send pictures. Email me at rtippery@charter.net for pictures.

55thunderbird

Have you taken a look at John Mummert's new Alternator Bracket for the Y-Block? It's under the "New Items for the Y-Block" section about 1/2 down the page. Looks pretty nice, not exactly stock looking, but close enough and as with most of John's products, looks really nice.

Gerald Ingram aka "Gritsngumbo"
Monroe, LA
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