Trial fitting of the Water Pump and the W/P Drive system. The Water pump mounts upside down, which doesn't interfere with it's proper operation. If you were to mount it right side up it would be necessary to do some frame cutting to clear the hose connections and the hoses. There is a a-symmetrical hole in the Water Pump and a corresponding hole in the engine block these holes need to be plugged as described in the Video Instruction Tape. After this has been done temporarily bolt the W/P to the engine.
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We will now "Trial Fit" the W/P Drive System. Bolt the larger "Cogged" pulley to the W/P and install the W/P Shaft Assembly to the H.B.P. determine proper belt alignment as per the Video. At final assembly, in the car, the excess shaft length will be trimmed off and the lower pulley will be welded to the shaft. After these factors have been determined, you can remove the W/P rive assy.. And set it aside.
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Final install the Alternator. The major consideration in the mounting the Alternator is the "V" belt alignment. You will also note that all SBC Valve covers stick out past the end of the cylinder head, if the Alternator Mount was bolted flat against the end of the cylinder head it would interfere with the Valve cover. So at least a couple of flat washers need to be used behind the Alternator mount. As you mount the Alternator Mount to the Cylinder head you will note that you will need to add or remove washers behind the Alt. Mount to obtain proper "V" belt alignment. You can now install and tighten the "V" belt. You will note that we opted to add a Idler pulley to get a little more "wrap" on the A/C Compressor. I usually don't use an Idler Pulley, but made a last minute decision to add one on this car. Pics. Are with & without the idler.
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We are now mounting the Torque Rod. As you can see it's mounted to the end of the cylinder head and goes down and back a little to mount a small piece of angle iron welded to the cradle. Adjust the Torque Rod so that it neither raises or pulls down on the near-by transmission mount. The Torque Rod is meant to control engine movement keeping the engine/trans. In a "status quo" position, it is not meant to change positioning of any of the items that we have mounted so far.
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