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Replacement fanbelt not 'flat'
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<blockquote data-quote="Moseley" data-source="post: 627681" data-attributes="member: 20098"><p>Something that might be worth considering based on my recent experience is the quality of the pulleys you’re using. Mine was a cheapo alternator pulley and an Empi aluminium crank pulley. The belt would always run quite slack, so I’d either be on one shim for a new belt, and zero as it broke in - didn’t give much wiggle room for any future stretching.</p><p></p><p>I then noticed that the top pulley was starting to deform under the tension of the belt, to the point where it started to foul the alternator. Fortunately I caught it early before it failed completely, and have now swapped to a billet CSP pulley set, and am running around 7 shims between the pulley halves - I’m much more comfortable with that.</p><p></p><p>It might be your pulleys causing your slack belt issue, rather than the belt itself.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Moseley, post: 627681, member: 20098"] Something that might be worth considering based on my recent experience is the quality of the pulleys you’re using. Mine was a cheapo alternator pulley and an Empi aluminium crank pulley. The belt would always run quite slack, so I’d either be on one shim for a new belt, and zero as it broke in - didn’t give much wiggle room for any future stretching. I then noticed that the top pulley was starting to deform under the tension of the belt, to the point where it started to foul the alternator. Fortunately I caught it early before it failed completely, and have now swapped to a billet CSP pulley set, and am running around 7 shims between the pulley halves - I’m much more comfortable with that. It might be your pulleys causing your slack belt issue, rather than the belt itself. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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