Vintage Jeep Alternator Conversion! 

Glad to see you back in the shop making videos. Great content.

Chingon amigo..... excelente video

BUEN TRABAJO !!! UN SALUDO DESDE ARGENTINA !!!

Im so glad your back making your helpful videos. I was afraid you had gone into protective custody 😂

Great video. Very informative. I need to convert my M38A1 from 24V to 12V at some point and I'll avoid the mounting bracket. Thanks!

An F base bracket and a belt tensioner.. It's a good excuse for this comeback (😁😁) !! Anyway I'm glad you are back again with your Jeep videos.. What happened to the your Willys ? TOTAL reconstruction? And a recommendation if you will...Get rid of the ammeter (if it exists on your dash..) and add a voltmeter.. Way easier, safer and better..

I used one of the best kits on the web. Manufactured by the seller. Still had to use some washers but the v offset bracket came with it. Kit was $100 or so and the alternator came from Amazon at around $50. I just checked and they have gone up to $80-100. Either way it’s a great mod. You can run a volt meter from anything that’s keyed. Glad to see you’re making some movies.

I'm new here, just bought a 53 cj5, and have been seeing what other people have to say about parts, and the quality of the parts. The only scary thing i saw was that frahm oil filter, i use wix on everything because they are the best. I have worked on a lot of car's over the year's, but never an old willys jeep, and i see there are some parts to stay away from, like dorman parts for late model vehicles. G-d bless.

I did more or less what you did with the 3B, worked out fine. Still have to get a good fan belt, using an industrial one at the moment, but not quite wide enough.

Good to see you again, Jacob. Well, the bracket you built looks and I'm sure works 1000 times better. The whole multiple pieces bolted together thing just looks cobbled to me. Knowing how you do things, I'm betting that piece of crap won't be on there too long....

The oil filter bracket was used on the later model cj5’s w/ the 134 F head. I had a 1964 tuxedo park that was set up that way in the 1970’s that came factory with that set up.

On those brackets those bolts. should be flipped around.we're the bolt heads are inside of those brackets instead of on the outside of them. For mounting purposes to fit on the engine flush and square and level.

I got a good chuckle when you showed the adapter for the belt tensioner that came with the kit, I thought "that looks really hokey" and two seconds later you said that exact thing! As always though, you created a solid, good looking setup, nice job!

Thanks for showing this. I'm am currently working on mounting an alternator to my CJ2A L134.

Very good information, thank you for doing this video. About two years late to save me. I used one on my '46 and pretty much experienced what you did. It was a lot of work to get it in and still turns out to be a kinda" half baked installation. You have convinced me to do it over with a better solution. Thanks for mentioning the alternate sources.

Wow!! Glad I watched this! Was on my list for spring to buy/do.

Swapped mine today, made a bracket out of generator bracket & moved the adjuster to battery tray. No welding just drilled 4 holes & no extra parts other than old bolts I already had.

Those bracket kits should have A added in L- bracket extension plate arm inside of the packaging for the people who doesn't like.,or want to use that type of extension bracket plate.

My Cj2A came with a "bubba" kit consisting of a small block chevy alternator bracket, some all-thread, and a 90 degree bracket that all bolted back to the starter to hold it in place. I replaced that with a bracket from Classic Military Vehicles via ebay. The kit looks similar but it just immediately worked. No welding, no fabrication, just bolted my existing Delco 10si alternator to my L-head. My experience on alternator brackets is a sample size of one, but that's the route I went. (Though Sal at Vintage Jeeper probably has a respectable kit as well, he tends to do things right.)

I enjoy your videos buddy, glad you keep things real

I know why those brackets are not the greatest. It's the bolts that's being used to hold those parts together with. That's the actual problem with them to. They need some retaining bolts with squared locker's and round heads on them to. Like for putting together sliding barn doors and tracks with that are made out of metal instead of wood.

My GPW came with one of those alternator brackets on it and its just a disaster. I bought a cheapy from China and its OK but I'm going to make up similar to your home made bracket.

Would still need the spacer for the upper arm, but instead of lengthening it, could you have used a shorter belt?

So was the CJ5 originally a 6v system? If so, did you have to change anything else like lights, gauges?

Yep it's a bit dodgy hey, the old girl sounds sweet though.

ok so i wont buy that kit thanks for the heads up and damn i thought you took a wrong turn going to the outhouse one night and stepped off the edge of the earth

I have a 1963 CJ -5 and I would like to see how you handle a break and clutch peddle conversion. Any advice would be appreciated.

I have a 64 cj5 with f134, would you be interested in making and selling a set of alternator brackets?

Ya know if you’re looking for content, look no further than your followers. Maybe you’d be interested in what others are doing to fix the same. Like me, updating an alternator on a Dauntless V6. Yep, the kit sucks.