Rattiac, I watched Fitzee on youtube today, working on a custom fifties chevy (might acctually be a 1950),
he does anything with simple tools. Maybe you don't need a pro, there's always bondo. I used 36 lbs of bondo
on my Essex, and it didn't even have fenders. It was my first project in the dream garage I had just built. I fail
to see my own limitations, sometimes it goes well, sometimes, not so much.
I had to get a small alternator, as the one I had meant to use wouldn't fit. This is a 40 Ampere one, meant for
a Kubota. I had planned on using V-belts, but thought the better of it, I'll never get this build done, if I am
going to alter everything, so instead I bought a new pulley, and a 15-17 mm bushing to make it fit the axle.
Of course the pulley was too thick for the short axle, so I had to turn it down about three thirtyseconds
on my uncle's lathe for the nut to have enough threads. It's never as easy as it looks.
It took me all weekend to make a sturdy alternator mount, that gets the pulleys exactly in line with
eachother. I admit to have been to town, shopping for a belt and having an ice cream too, so not actually all weekend.
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