Alternator Support Bracket

[renaissance]

Just lost an alternator and belt on a '95 Yukon. When I bought it in December, previous owner had told me he had just put on a new alternator because the old one had a cracked housing at the lower mounting bolt.

Here's what I found. I remembered reading about alternator bracing and vibration from a diesel, so I checked my '94 donor. Sure enough, there was a support bracket for the alternator coming up off the intake manifold mounting bolts. There was no support for the alternator on the '95 Yukon.

2 broken housing at the lower mount in less than 4 months is a pretty good indicator of the importance of the alternator support. Mine failed on a country road. If it had happened in traffic - no steering and even worse, no brakes, could have been BAD.

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

I have one sitting on my bench for putting a CS144 onto a 92-95. I made it for my BURB. I also have the upper bracket laying around somewhere. Wish I would have known when you were here, would have gave it to yeah.

 

[WarWagon]

Upgrade to a CS-144, a much more reliable alt, and build your own rear support bracket or beg one off Leroy. - Remember to keep your special sized diesel alt pulley.

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

I also found that bag of sensors I told you about. I looked and couldn't find the top bracket for the CS-144 to a 95, but I do have the rear support bracket layed out.

 

[WarWagon]

CS 144 with rear bracket.

 

[Burning oil]

Whats the BFH for

 

[Will L.]

Whats the BFH for

Chevy's just run better with a bfh in the vicinity, kinda like a threat of Dads belt just sitting there- a visual reminder.

 

[Leo Gustafsson]

It hadn't occurred to me to fab one up like that for my D144, I've been sweatin' trying to find the OE obsoleted bracket for a while now.