Date:         Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:27:17 -0800
Reply-To:     Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
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From:         Matthew Pollard <poll7356@UIDAHO.EDU>
Subject:      broken alternator bracket? What's the real cause?
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Folks, i have been mildly following this broken alternator bracket thread
and have a few questions and comments. Alternator brackets just don't
break. Ok, some do, but if your breaks, and then breaks again and again,
something is wrong. If the alternator is not balanced well, or looses
balance then it could be stressing the bracket when it spins- but that may
also cause other things on that belt so cry out in pain. So what about a
mis-aligned pulley/alternator. Say it is 1/8" out of the plane of the
belt-path, or maybe angled a bit? What I am trying to get at is that
alternator brackets just should break one after another.  There is
something wrong somewhere else.
Ok, now back to spam
-Matthew



Matthew Pollard             http://www.uidaho.edu/~poll7356
Dept. of Chemistry               http://www.chem.uidaho.edu
University of Idaho                   http://www.uidaho.edu