Hi Volks;
The Tiico conversion into my 83 Westy is breaking the long alternator
mounting bolt.  An otherwise excellent conversion, I can't understand why
the alternator is mounted in such a dumb way.  A quite hard 6" bolt goes
thru a 2" support mounted on the engine, there is an inch of free space (I
made a spacer), and then it goes into the alternator bracket!  This means
that the relatively heavy alt is hanging off a 4" rod which I stress even
more by attaching a tight belt as far away from the engine support as one
can get and still be connected.  Hey Peter, don't you think there should be
a better way?? I hope someone out there has already overcome this problem
and with an easy fix.  I've thought about cutting off the alt support from a
junk golf engine and welding it in place of the existing support, but I
don't know if I want to be welding on top of my new engine!!
Any help will be appreciated, and it being Friday, I can take a few flames
if I'm missing a dumb fix.
Glad I still have my original Waterboxer, now lets see if it starts.

Dave B
83 Tiico Westy
83 WBX Westy
59 SO4