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> >Jim Thompson wrote in
> >news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
> >
> >> Yes. It's been that way since the '60's. See my patents
> >
> >For GM anyways. Ford caught on in 1986 or so. I am not to sure about
> >Chrysler, and non-American makes.
>
> Ford's were bolted to a flat machined on the back end of the
> alternator housing.
My '70 AMC Gremlin's VR was a vibrator type bolted on the fire-wall, so not everyone changed in the '60s. ;-)