Certain Altmount® Kit and Alternator Discontinuations effective May 1, 2024

Posted by Peter Kennedy on 3/19/2024 to Alternators

Some Altmount Kits to be Discontinued

Balmar has been providing Altmount® kits to their customers for over 15 years, enabling the installation of their high-output alternators on older engine designs. As these engines age out, the volume of annual sales for many of the kits has dropped. Additionally, the Altmount® kit component manufacturing costs have increased dramatically over the last three years, as each kit contains custom machined pulleys. Combining these two factors, they have reached a point where the continuation of slow-moving kits has become unfeasible. Therefore, they intend to discontinue the kits shown in the tables below.

Some large case alternators to be discontinued

Balmar has been producing large-case alternators almost from the company’s inception over 40 years ago. It has been a continuous effort to source and re-source key components, amid the changing manufacturing landscape over the years. Just like with the Altmount products, the costs of some custom components have increased substantially over the last five years. With this in mind, they have come to the difficult conclusion to end of life the 94, 95 and 98 series alternators.

If the item you are interested in does not appear in our store its because there are none left. Sorry.

2 Comments

Foster Lee

Date 4/1/2024

I have a Beta 43 with a serpentine belt, not a V belt. Do any of the above list of discontinued alternators fit this engine. Thanks

Peter Kennedy

All of the discontinued alternators are large case. I expect your Beta engine takes a small case alternator. All small case alternators are going to be still available.

Hayden Watson

Date 4/22/2024

There is good reason for them to discontinue to produce belt kits. They suck at it. I purchased a 48-USP-M25 kit for my Universal and the drive pulley is 1/8" too small. PKYS says is it Balmar's problem and Balmar says it is PKYS problem and i am the one out $480.

All kits are shipping with this label prominently fixed on the outside of the box. If the suggestions are followed there is no problem setting up a return if it doesn't work out. "Not all engines are the same. Occasionally for a variety of reasons these kits do not work out. If you want to be able to return the kit you need to keep it in pristine condition. Handle the pulleys with gloves, avoid any scratches or dings, preserve all packaging, instructions and parts. Wrap the pulleys so they don't bang against each other. Don't write or stick labels on the box. Our return policy is 30 days."

Balmar to discontinue certain pulley kits and alternators

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