Re: Generator Arm Trivia C1
Joe -
Here's the story. In the photo below, taken in 1955, it shows passenger car V-8's on the shipping dock; note that the generator brace is pivoted back over to the passenger side for vertical shipping rack clearance. At the assembly plant, they loosened the water pump bolt, pivoted the brace back to its normal position on the driver's side, installed the generator, and re-tightened the water pump bolt.
They couldn't pivot it over to the passenger side on the Corvette engine, as the generator brace was fixed in its normal position due to its going through the slot in the motormount bracket. As a result, the end of the Corvette generator brace stuck up above the top level of the engine rack, and was frequently bent/damaged when another engine rack was stacked above it. That's why Engineering made the change to the Flint V-8 plant Bill of Material in early April, 1955, to re-allocate assembly of the Corvette generator brace from Flint V-8 to St. Louis. The same brace (3704884) was used on passenger and truck engines, and it remained installed (and painted orange) at Flint V-8 on those engines.
Joe -
Here's the story. In the photo below, taken in 1955, it shows passenger car V-8's on the shipping dock; note that the generator brace is pivoted back over to the passenger side for vertical shipping rack clearance. At the assembly plant, they loosened the water pump bolt, pivoted the brace back to its normal position on the driver's side, installed the generator, and re-tightened the water pump bolt.
They couldn't pivot it over to the passenger side on the Corvette engine, as the generator brace was fixed in its normal position due to its going through the slot in the motormount bracket. As a result, the end of the Corvette generator brace stuck up above the top level of the engine rack, and was frequently bent/damaged when another engine rack was stacked above it. That's why Engineering made the change to the Flint V-8 plant Bill of Material in early April, 1955, to re-allocate assembly of the Corvette generator brace from Flint V-8 to St. Louis. The same brace (3704884) was used on passenger and truck engines, and it remained installed (and painted orange) at Flint V-8 on those engines.

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