Type1 Alt/Gen stand bolt spacing ???

Anyone happen to know the bolt pattern/spacing for the 4 bolts on a Type 1 Alt/Genny stand... or have one handy that they could take a measurement off of ???

Forgot to bring my test one with me to work today, and trying to avoid having to drive home and get it.

I know that they're M8 bolts so the holes are presumably 8 or 8.5mm OD... but I also need to know the spacing between centers, both side to side and front to rear.

Thanks !!!

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Just measuring with my builders tape measure - 60mm C - C both ways, ie - it is square.

Brilliant - thanks heaps Jeff - exactly what I needed

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The thing I find interesting about measuring things on VWs, is that they usually keep bolt spacings etc to whole centimetres.

Steve

Yeah - I've noticed that too Steve... seems to happen a fair bit with Porsche parts also... the usual case of German's being uber-precise perhaps ???

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Hi Dave

Its funny when the yanks list a VW related dimension and its some weird fraction of an inch.

Steve

I reckon imperial is a real hard way to do things. I am so pleased Australia changed to metric.

With you there Jeff, strange though that both my sons still refer to imperial measures at times, my son who is a chippie still refers to 4x2 and 3x1 1/2 etc and he has never had to use imperial for anything, my younger son will quite often say something is about "one inch" etc, best thing we ever did was go metric, also it seems to me that metric spanners will fit nearly any bolt / nut whereas all the others seem to be size specific or they just don't fit (with a few exceptions).

I think the Yanks are gradually "inching" towards the Metric system.😏

the yanks have had some monumental stuff-ups when converting metric back to good-ol-boys inches n feet.
Apparently Chevy got it seriously wrong with their V8 bores and piston clearances about 12 years ago. Lots of customers werent happy with the noises coming from their brand new engines.

I know we are straying from the track a bit, but a funny 'metric conversion' incident just flashed back. Just after we changed to metric measurements, a builder asked me to make a bit of roof flashing "one metre, 6 3/4 inches long".😂

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Another off track metric moment. I used to do some weight training with a friend who was born in the metric era, he told me how many LBs he was using, when I stopped laughing I told him that it was short for pounds, so he said why didn't it say pds or similar? No wonder we got rid of that silly system.

Steve

Funny that. I used to work with an old carpenter when we changed to metric, and he was a bugger for that. We ended up taking his half-breed (one side metric, one side imperial) tape off him and made him get a full metric one. I find it amazing there was more than one person doing that - it is funny though.

Hi Steve, yes I remember you wrote about the young guy lifting 'el-bees' in the magazine years ago! 'lb' for pound comes from the Latin, Libra Pondo (pound weight). Of course everyone knows that Libra in astrology is the scales.

The two different gallons (Imperial and US) causes no end of hassles converting back and forth. Thank heavens we buy almost everything in litres now.

When I did my pilot's licence years ago, we used to work out distances in nautical miles but runway lengths in metres; altitude in feet but ground clearances/topography in metres; weights and balances in kg but fuel burn in pounds; daylight in local time but flight plans in UTC...Aargh! It's amazing that more planes don't crash.

The first successful American space rocket was the Jupiter C, which launched the Explorer 1 satellite in 1958. It was designed by Von Braun - a metricated German. The earlier US Navy Vanguard exploded in flames. The later Redstone that put Alan Shephard in space was basically a souped-up V2 - metric.

I used to think that Volkswagens were all metric but you caught me out with the thread on the oil filters. Wheel diameters and widths are still universally in inches, but tyres have a mixture of both (185-14). Are there any other VW parts that are still imperial?

Hi Phil, How about seat belt mounting bolts - 7/16" UNF? Not sure, but are wheel & master cylinders imperial I.D.s?

MG - TC engines were full of metric threads, too!

Well..... the footwells are 2 feet deep.......lol

Oh please Jeff, I think you have stayed up too late, by the way, RU still thinking about the "T" bar?

Yeah - been a bit tied up. Hoping to do it this week if I can finish early enough - daylight savings will help.

Just thinking, I can't do it Thursday, so it better be tomorrow. I will ring from Windale when I can leave, as long as it is before 5.00pm, otherwise will have to be next week.