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ECOTEC 2.0 LTG SWAP

I spoke to Andrew at Water Walker Props. Super nice and VERY helpful. He even offered to help me get some resolution to my reduction drive issue. After speaking with Andrew I'm going to take his recommendation and go with the 73 or 74" (cage limited) Maximus 3 blade.

If you were going to build your own adapter what gear box do you think would be the easiest to adapt? Here is my flex plate.

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This belt routing would not allow the tensioner to work correctly but would not rub anywhere. If I could find the correct length belt I might be able to get it on and have it work properly. Or I could modify the alternator to work as the tensioner..............or just run a AC compressor. AC would be nice in the summer months.

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Starting on my motor mounts. I don’t think they are all
the same but what would be an approximate or average offset from centerline of crank to centerline of the prop shaft for a gearbox.....ox box, stinger, rotator, ballistic.... and no I don’t know yet what box I’m going to end up with. At this point it looks like I will be making an adapter so the good news is I can use any of them.
 
I have a set of LTG front motor mounts ill give you so you can make patterns with them.

Custom build an idler... its easy.
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BRLCLA Thanks for the offer and the link. If you get a chance send me a few pics of the mounts I may take you up on that offer. I was looking at the Dorman AC delete pulleys and was considering doing something similar. I found a few that looked like they could be made to work with a little effort.

I also looked at rotating the tensioner clockwise about 150 degrees. That could be done but would have required grinding some clearance off the housing where it was closest to the harmonic balancer and drilling one dowel hole in the boss that the tensioner mounts to.

However, the simplest option was to pick up some 125mm bolts and double nut them to use the alternator as a tensioner.

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Belt I used for this setup. Compliments of a sweet lady at Advanced Auto that let me behind the counter to rummage thru all the belts :D
 
Worked yesterday on some mounting ideas. One on each side of the engine and one on the front. Also stated on the new stand so that I will have access to the bell housing for measuring and planning for the reduction adapter.

The motor mounts will ultimately be made out of 1/4" stainless plate.

the stand will get some x bracing as well.

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