80 series denso jaguar alternator replacement upgrade and/or photoman bracket install

[landcruiser3DP]

You've got options:
Leave the OEM bracket, install the rebuilt alternator.
Install the Photoman bracket, install the rebuilt alternator.
Install the Photoman bracket and install the rebuilt alternator, but replace the rebuilt alternator at a later date with a Tundra/Sequoia alternator.

can't remember is you did the photon bracket but i think you modified your existing. also you put a time sert somewhere that i didnt exactly catch and which is not in the rising sun install i saw.
but anyway does this look right if i want to install the photoman bracket?
that tensioner bolt seems like it is at a bit of an angle?

 

[landcruiser3DP]

i guess i need to read the instructions tomorrow. anyone know if this looks right for installing photoman bracket?
is there some kind of modification required?

 

[landcruiser3DP]

is there some larger bolt that needs to fit into the engine with this kit? i can't quite follow...

 

[landcruiser3DP]

i think this is right for temporary install before the alternator goes back in? that locking bolt for the tensioner bolt gets secured to the alternator i guess.

 

[landcruiser3DP]

thanks to all here. i went with a local reman place ($160 plus some fee to get to $180) and just reused my bracket.
one note is that the long bronze bolt goes into the bracket attachment that sits in kind of a cylindrical housing on the casting. and the short bolt goes through the tensioner locking bolt.
if you put the long one into the locking block and the shorter one into the bracket next it's very confusing.
the long bolt locks the tensioner locking bolt fine so it's easy to miss. but the bracket hole is small enough to hold that shorter bolt relatively securely at the front, then the ID of the hole is small enough to create some friction against the OD of the thread, and additionally that bolt is just long enough to catch in the recessed threads but it will keep spinning.
for some time i somehow imagined that bracket bolt hole was supposed to take a bigger bolt or that the threads had somehow been stripped.
it's super hard to see anything for the noobs down there so some pics since you are doing it all by feel.
i will also admit i had to get out the metric tap and rethread set and to having a hard time to switch from socket sizes to thread sizes in the middle of working since i've never really gotten my head around thread diameter and pitch as they might correspond to socket head sizes...

 

[landcruiser3DP]

i also wasn't clued into the fact that the far bracket in the engine casting i guess has a moving insert that slides to allow you to fully tighten the alternator store in place. so it can be pushed back to make room to slot in the alternator but it is also tightened last after you fully tension the tensioner bolt since it will lock the alternator in place.
so it's called a "pivot bolt" but it's more like a locking pivot bolt.
also for anyone doing this from a dead start factory reman is about $220 possibly plus shipping and factory new looked like $340 (but i didn't shop around much).

 

[landcruiser3DP]

lol. this one really had me even after disassembling and sticking taps and rethreads down there trying to figure out wtf was up with that hole.
i may have to find a decent mirror for anything like this next time so i can actually see what i am doing.
i also need to buy another thread gauge since the one i have is never anywhere when i need it...