Larry,
I had the same thing happen to me in my '72 Midget. I was returning from
SnowFOG, West Virginia which was the best darn National Meet we had ever been
to (even if you couldn't see anything more than 10 feet in front of you).
I was on the road for something like 13 hours straight, lights starting going
dim 15 miles from home, car stalled at the end of my street, I rolled down the
street and into the driveway.
That car never let me down.
When the fuel pump went on the car, it gave out at the top of the hill from my
house. I rolled down the hill and into the driveway.
That '72 was a great car.
Peter Piper
Larry & Sandi Miller wrote:
> Went for a cruise yesterday that included a stretch of very rough dirt road
> (washboard type roughness). A couple of miles later there was a clunk and
> then a high pitched screech. Opened the bonnet and discovered that the
> mounting ear had broken off the alternator. This is the ear that bolts to
> the water pump. The alternator had rotated and the alternator fan was
> clipping the bracket making the screech. Got it in a better position and
> tightened the the bracket at both ends and made it home ok.
>
> Any thoughts on why it would break? Just a bad casting? maybe running the
> belt too tight? The bolt hole portion of the ear was ground down for
> alignment but that is not where it broke. It broke right along the edge of
> the alternator case.
>
> Larry Miller
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