KettleCarver
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Hey guys, how much clearance do you have between your crank pulley and the steering rack?
Thanks,
Marty
Thanks,
Marty
Missed it by "that" much . . . .Hey guys, how much clearance do you have between your crank pulley and the steering rack?
Thanks,
Marty
This sounds like the situation that I have now. The pulley is much deeper than a stock pulley. I was afraid of it contacting the rack like you describe.When I got my Tiger, it had an incorrect deeper crank pulley and the (lack of) clearance was such that the rotating forward edge of the pulley would contact the rack on deceleration. The rack tube had two vertical wear marks, one deep enough to weep oil. Another local Tiger owner happened to have a slightly damaged, but correct depth pulley so I took a chance and banged out the dents... worked great and I subsequently soldered a penny over the hole in the rack tube. The clearance is such that the belt will just barely fit in the gap, I have to push it between the pulley and the rack.
My balancer is 3/4", maybe 25/32". Looks to be about 2 1/2" from the belt to the water pump/timing cover, which is the aluminum open back water pump version.How thick is your harmonic balancer?
So you have a Tiger crank pulley on a 3 bolt dampner, and Tiger fan pulley on a SS aluminium water pump?I bought a stock Tiger water pump from Sunbeam Specialties. It measures about 1/4" shallower than the one on the car now, which will bring that pulley back 1/4". I also bought a stock crank pulley which is 1 1/2" shallower than the one on the car. I am trying to determine if I can get everything to line up to get the belt on correctly.
What do you mean by the water pump "flange"? Is that the part that the pulley bolts to? How would you go about pushing it back?I am not sure that the Mustang crank pulley will work, and to my knowledge the Tiger/Ford industrial single sheave pulley is the only one that properly fits??
There are other water pump pullies that will fit, including the referenced Fairmont one in the Cooling the Sunbeam Tiger paper. - google this if you are not familiar with the paper. One issue that esthetically bothers me is the 2-3 sheave Fairmont or other ford pullies.
Here is a Fairmont size, Tiger spec, pulley in a single sheave design that I made.
I have tried lots of different fan pullies over the decades, and the Fairmont one with the proper fan and pump, seems best for me
There is nothing special about the water pump, and an early aluminium Mustang style will fit, but you have to push the pump flange rearward so that there is about 3-4mm clearance between the flange and pump body. I presume that you have an aluminium 64-5 Mustang timing cover and pump, and if so than all is fine.
The generator is another Tiger specific tale, and not only will you need the Tiger bracket, but a generator with the 1962 Tiger pulley. You can bet by now that the generator has been changed with a rebuilt unit and the proper pulley long gone. Google for the "dime check" to confirm if you have the proper pulley. There are combinations of brackets, pullies and shims that will work, but the easy fix is an alternator conversion. On my spare motor, I addressed all 3 issues with billet aluminium bits that I made - pic attached
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