Saleen Alt Bracket Broke
 

Spoke with JDM and they have to get a new one from Saleen...$70 freaking dollars. Oh well... Anyone have any idea what could have caused this? I was thinking the bolt may have been over torqued, but being that all this **** is aluminum I'm very careful about how tight I make stuff.

Last time I took it off was about a month ago when the tensioner pulley separated and trashed the tensioner and belt. I had grease and rubber every where. So I took everything apart to clean it. I know the bracket wasn't like that then since I had to take it off and clean it as well. But ****, I'm pretty confident I didn't crank down on that bolt to cause that.

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Sounds like it was over torqued...

Yikes! Atleast you caught it before it snapped all the way off.

Well, it's broke all the way through, but that's as far as it's going to go due to the other two bolts. The bad part is that it's taken the alt pulley out of alignment and it's going to be about two weeks before I can get another bracket.

Any vibration up there?

What do you mean, before it broke? Not that I can notice over the Kooks and Stingers.

Would this help?
Steeda heavy duty tensioner bracket
Steeda Heavy Duty Belt Tensioner - Billet Pulley - '05-'09
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Appreciate it, but already have an aftermarket tensioner. Although I did have the stock one in for a few weeks when this occurred. Could be from the stop on the OEM causing the belt to tighten up and putting extra load on the alt pulley. Not sure, just guessing here...