I may or may not be able to help you/supply exactly what you are looking for. I can supply an alternator with a universal generator to alternator bracket kit that would install relatively easy w/o any major fab work, just nuts and bolts. I would need to know specifics on your pulley before I promised an exact match. I would need to know diameter and pulley width. Feel free to contact me if you'd like any more details or have any additional questions. I can email you pictures of the bracket kit if you would like. Email me if interested.
Thank you, sir. Since posting the above, it seems i overestimated the weight of the original AutoLite 35-amp generator in my '47 Packard Super Clipper, this generator being identical to all the AutoLite 35-amp generators used in cars of the '40s, the sole difference, as you know, being pulley size.
In other words, i've two spare generators, one, like that in my car from the factory, an AutoLite GEA-4802-A as used in 1942-47 Packard senior Clippers with the 356 nine-main engine. The other spare is an AutoLite GDZ-4818-A, this number for 1947-51 Kaiser-Frazer. The generators are identical in every respect as someone at some point replaced the K-F pulley with one for the big, heavy-duty fanbelt the Packard 356 uses, which also reduces the generator rpm the 8 volt maximum output is produced from 2,000 in the Kaiser to 1,700 in the Super/Customer Super Eight Packard.
Turns out a 35-amp AutoLite generator weighs 26 lbs, not the 30 i huchimated. Since the modern Delco alternator most folks revamp to 6-volt, positive ground weighs 9 lbs., a paring of only 17 lbs. doesn't seem worth the effort,
my car working swell stock, as they do when everything's in order.
My only reason for considering going to an alternator was to save some serious weight, Packard never making a "Continental" model, as Bentley did a few years later with their R- and S-Types, the latter even in four-door saloon version.
I've jettisoned 100 lbs. thus far without altering the car in the least, and as the driver's on the Bill Clinton vegan diet, will call the project finished for now. Maybe. But you sound like a heads up kinda gent, so will tell the various old car folk in my circle about you. Thanks again, sir.
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