Saw a DOHC Diamante in the yard and grabbed the altenator off it...I thought it was the 110 Amp unit, but after looking it up I think its only 90 Amps as the Diamante didnt upgrade to 110A ontill 98 or so..this one was out of a 95...You can see the size difference side by side. Diamante on the left Montero on the right. The pulley on the diamante unit is the same diameter but has one more V groove. I had to get a longer belt to fit over the pulley since the bigger alt sits up a little higher.



I cut the rear ear off the Diamante alt..and used the steel sleeve in the cut off portion as a stand-off to get the alternator aligned with the engine pulleys. Also drilled a second hole in the front ear to get the alt to mount lower in the bracket. I'm not really satisfied by this mount and I have thought of a better way to do it with retaining the rear ear. I have a few hundred miles on this set-up so far and it seems to work well though..It was more of an experiment. I'll re-do it once I find a 110A unit.

Ive had this metal in my garage forever..leftover from my rear bumper project on my 95 SR...Decided to make a front bumper for the 89 out of it



Cut a notch in the front of the frame for the bumper to sit in. Measured and marked.



Cut and bent,


I wanted to keep it as close in as possible to maintain approach angle. The winch will eventually be mounted back between the frame rails.





Boxing it up..That's as far as I got today I'm going to run 2" back to the wheel wells tomorrow and atach mounting brackets.

Looks awesome! Like the tight design on the front. Good work on the alternator, too. Interested to see how it works out for you. I still have the 140A GM one waiting for a donor bracket to try my hand at it.

Larry -

I might have a bracket for you next week. I just bought a lot of 42 cars, one of which is a 3.0L SOHC Diamante from which I plan to claim the block. I don't remember if the Diamante SOHC has the same alternator bracket as the truck, but I think it does.

There's also a 2002 Galant 3.0L DOHC in the group. I was hoping to pull the crankshaft out of it, but I see from CAPS that the crankshaft is different from the earlier DOHC engines - not sure what's different about it, though.

Frank

Getting there..lots of grinding to do..the neighbors must love me <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />

Cool Frank, I may need more than one, depending on how my grinding skills hold up <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif" alt="" />

Looking awesome Justice! Are you thinking about any kind of brush guard addition? If so, are you thinking square to match or round for contrast?

I think I'm going to have someone bend a "hoop" out of round DOM for me. Nothing too high but something I can mout a couple of lights to. I also want to mount some shackle tabs but I"m not tooo sure about relying on my welds for a recovery point just yet. The bolt on ones are close to 100 bucks..more than the whole bumper costs to make <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/lol.gif" alt="" />..If anyone has any suggestions on good recovery points for this I'm all ears..I would prefer bolt on that way I can put bolts all the way through with a reinforcement blate on the back side out of sight..

These are nice but 80 bucks plus shipping for a pair..no thanks..

why don't you consider doing something like this: $25


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