A couple of weeks later, another update. It's almost like I'm on some sort of schedule...

This time, it's the belt tensioner. Got that one figured out now, too. Since the LA blocks lack the block bolt holes required to mount the OE Magnum tensioner, I had to fabricate something again. This time it was a bracket to allow a salvaged piece of the original LA PS pump bracket to act as the tensioner pulley swing arm. The bracket I needed to make attaches to the main accessory bracket, and happens to have the same bolt pattern as the mate to the offset bend bracket on the LA PS pump bracket (the one that mounts on the lower two timing cover bolt holes). That worked out well for making a pattern, but I still had to modify it quite a bit to achieve the range of motion I needed. Also, since the two holes I needed to use in the main accessory bracket were AGAIN not in the same plane, I needed to make a spacer to keep it all square. Easy enough with three washers.




Last edited by Clair_Davis; 07/17/05 05:28 PM.