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Mart · 12-13-2011, 02:11 PM

Nice ideas, folks.

36 T-Bird, Looking at your setup - I can't help thinking that if the alternator were laid over towards the left side of the engine, (right as you look at the picture,) and made adjustable, you could dispense with the idlers and with careful belt length selection have a really neat setup. You would have to lay it over about 45 degrees. The direction of adjustment would want to be parallel with the run of the belt that is passing just under the head of the distributor.

Just sort of thinking outloud here..

Mart.

12-13-2011, 02:11 PM	#11
Mart Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Solihull, England. Posts: 9,240	Re: Ronning 8BA style distributor on 59A Nice ideas, folks. 36 T-Bird, Looking at your setup - I can't help thinking that if the alternator were laid over towards the left side of the engine, (right as you look at the picture,) and made adjustable, you could dispense with the idlers and with careful belt length selection have a really neat setup. You would have to lay it over about 45 degrees. The direction of adjustment would want to be parallel with the run of the belt that is passing just under the head of the distributor. Just sort of thinking outloud here.. Mart.