Newbie thinking about diving into a '65 GMC 1000

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Originally Posted by Praxiss454

Who knows what the hell is going on here... My guess is maybe they had the wrong bracket, or the alternator + bracket was pulled out of a different vehicle. For whatever reason, the bracket attached to the alternator is attached to an L channel, which is then attached to the engine. If those bolt spacings line up I don't know why I don't just move the whole thing down and back the ~1".

My oil pan was also either painted blue at some point recently, or swapped in from another vehicle. Obviously I have a leaky gasket or two as well.

From the looks of the second picture, if you remove the L bracket and remount the alternator there you will be compounding the problem as it will move it back another 1/2" or so. I could be looking at that wrong, but it sure looks like the bracket to block bolts are farther toward the rear of the engine than the alt to bracket bolts.