Last week I had to tighten the belts on my 1031. As most of you probably know, The usual work-around of sticking a bar through the hole in the alternator bracket doesn't work too well on CUCV's. On 1031's in particular, it's darn near impossible to do with the usual pry bar method.
On the driver's side, the governor for the PTO is in the way.
On the passenger's side, there's a bunch of stuff in the way also.
So as I was sitting there trying to figure out how the heck I'm supposed to tighten the belts with all this stuff in the way, I remembered I had a special tool just for this problem in the bottom drawer of my tool chest. I literally had forgotten it was there. I've owned it for many years, but the only time I ever NEEDED it before was while tightening belts on a few oddball vans and motorhomes back in the day before everything had serpentine belts
The tool itself looks like this:
The small square hook fits in the recess next to the lug of a Delco alternator like this:
So it's a handy little tool and spared GM's (probably long retired) engineers from a few curse words. Only problem is that I have no idea who made the thing, if you can still get one, or where you can still get it. All it says on the tool is "Pat Pend" -- no numbers, mfg name, codes or anything else. I do remember that I got it off a Matco truck about 15 years ago and it wasn't made by Matco. I thought maybe Lisle (specialty tools) made it, but it's not on their site anywhere.
P.S.
Sorry you have to click for pics. SS is just flaky about displaying direct links and the pics go over the limit for attachment.
On the driver's side, the governor for the PTO is in the way.
On the passenger's side, there's a bunch of stuff in the way also.
So as I was sitting there trying to figure out how the heck I'm supposed to tighten the belts with all this stuff in the way, I remembered I had a special tool just for this problem in the bottom drawer of my tool chest. I literally had forgotten it was there. I've owned it for many years, but the only time I ever NEEDED it before was while tightening belts on a few oddball vans and motorhomes back in the day before everything had serpentine belts
The tool itself looks like this:
The small square hook fits in the recess next to the lug of a Delco alternator like this:
So it's a handy little tool and spared GM's (probably long retired) engineers from a few curse words. Only problem is that I have no idea who made the thing, if you can still get one, or where you can still get it. All it says on the tool is "Pat Pend" -- no numbers, mfg name, codes or anything else. I do remember that I got it off a Matco truck about 15 years ago and it wasn't made by Matco. I thought maybe Lisle (specialty tools) made it, but it's not on their site anywhere.
P.S.
Sorry you have to click for pics. SS is just flaky about displaying direct links and the pics go over the limit for attachment.
If you ever have to do a driver's side alt on a 1031, it's worth the 6 bucks.