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I use to work at NAPA and did this on alternators for older tractors (99% of the time swapping pulleys the opposite way we're trying to go here) but it could be as simple as finding a serpentine pulley that will fit the stock isolated alternator and building a custom bracket to mount it.
That might work as its an equalizer and not a regular standard isolator. That vanner is a heck of a lot different than the battery isolator in your boat or in my plow truck.
The vanner is costly though ($350 for a used one on a popular auction site) and if it ever fails you have no cheap way to...
A battery isolator is more designed around using one 12 volt alternator to charge 2 separate batteries so it wouldn't work for the CUCVs combined 12/24 volt system as there's no way to get 24 volts from it.
Because 98% of the electrical on a CUCV is 12 volts, only thing thats 24 volts is the starter, glow plugs and slave plug, so you would have a major uneven charging problem.
If you really want to keep the truck 24 volt and have a serp belt setup look into the 6.5 dual alternator options for...
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