The new alternator seems to work pretty well. Although last night I was out driving in the cold (around 15F!) and I stopped to pick up some things at a gas station. I left the truck running and on my way in to the store, I noticed a faint squeaking sounds from the area of the new alternator. I'm hoping this isn't a bearing issue! I suspect this is just a loose fan-belt. The original and current fan belt seems loose, and there's not more space left on the alternator adjustment slide to tighten it up. I think either the fan belt wasn't OEM so is just a tad to big for the application -OR- it's become a bit stretched. I am unable to tighten it more than it is now. So on Friday or Saturday I'll stop by Autozone and pickup a new one. If that one is also loose, I'll run over to NAPA and ask them if they have one about 1/2" shorter which should get me into about the 1/2-way mark on the Alternator Slide bracket with room to spare for tensioning.
I'll post an update on this when I have one. Keeping fingers crossed that it's not a bearing in the new Alternator! That would suck because this alternator cost me $282.00!
Thursday, November 28, 2013
Sunday, November 24, 2013
LCE 140 amp Alternator - Installed
This past Saturday I installed the new replacement LCE 140 amp Alternator. The job only took about 1 hour. It was supposed to be a direct replacement unbolt, replace, bolt up job. However, I found I needed to remove about 1/16" of aluminum from the Alternator lower mount point (off the back side of it) to get it to fit in okay. After that, it was just a matter of putting the drive belt back on, and running a new 8ga Hot lead to the battery. Wham-bam-thank-you-maam and Bobs ur uncle .... done. It was about 36F outside so thankfully it didn't take much longer.
Test drove it last night with the lights on High Beam, and the heater fan on, and the lights were indeed quite bright, and no dimming at stop signs and idle. So this tells me it was a worthwhile job. Not entirely a cheap replacement/upgrade, but under $300, and worth the effort I think. The new alternator should be easily good for another 300k miles (fingers crossed).
PS: The new 'Stroker' Engine block was ordered and should be shipping this week, which will be the start of the Supercharged 2.6 Liter upgraded engine Build for the rest of this year, and into early Spring 2014. There are quite a few bits left to order for this stage of the build up. I'd be a bit ashamed to note the total expected cost for it. (so I won't) but I totally expect it to be a worthwhile effort. More on that later...
PSS: (Update) The new Stroker block is being machined to suite the 8.3:1 pistons and should be shipped out the week of Dec 9th. They had to order the Forged 8.3:1 pistons in order to get the block done properly. Which is a GOOD thing! Those will be the pistons they send me when I order the Short Block Stroker Kit later this year.
Test drove it last night with the lights on High Beam, and the heater fan on, and the lights were indeed quite bright, and no dimming at stop signs and idle. So this tells me it was a worthwhile job. Not entirely a cheap replacement/upgrade, but under $300, and worth the effort I think. The new alternator should be easily good for another 300k miles (fingers crossed).
PS: The new 'Stroker' Engine block was ordered and should be shipping this week, which will be the start of the Supercharged 2.6 Liter upgraded engine Build for the rest of this year, and into early Spring 2014. There are quite a few bits left to order for this stage of the build up. I'd be a bit ashamed to note the total expected cost for it. (so I won't) but I totally expect it to be a worthwhile effort. More on that later...
PSS: (Update) The new Stroker block is being machined to suite the 8.3:1 pistons and should be shipped out the week of Dec 9th. They had to order the Forged 8.3:1 pistons in order to get the block done properly. Which is a GOOD thing! Those will be the pistons they send me when I order the Short Block Stroker Kit later this year.
Monday, November 18, 2013
2.6L Stroker Supercharger ~ Build Schedule
- November 15, 2013
- LCE 140 amp Alternator - Ordered 11/15/2013 (update should be shipping soon)
- When the headlights are on, the lights dim at idle. A good sign this needs replacing, and may as well get 2x the amps while I'm at it.
- Another update this probably wasn't really needed so much since I adjusted the idle to handle the loads of lights on and heater fan running. BUT at least I'll have a new one installed with 2x the output of the OEM!
- LCE Machined Stroker Block - Ordered 11/15/2013 (update will not ship for about 2wks while machining is being done to fit the new 8.3:1 .40 over pistons. The upside is that by the time this ships the Stoker Shortblock kit will probably be ordered and arrive around the same time.)
- (UPDATE) 12/5/2013 got word today that this block is finished and should be shipped out early next week. (Whoo Hoo!)
- (UPDATE) 12/18/2013 New Block has arrived safe and sound!
- November 29, 2013
- LCE Pro Stroker Short Block Kit
- Forged 8.3:1 Compression Ratio (same as Turbo pistons), which is good if I end up going Turbo down the road anyway.
- LCE Dual Row Timing Chain Cover
- December 13, 2013
- LCE Stage 2 (or 3) Head
- LCE Pro Block Brace
- January 3, 2014
- Camden Supercharger Kit
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