<VV> Serpentine Belt?

[Harry Yarnell]

Oh? Why should we blame the serpentine belt for your attempt to quiet the 
noisy pulley? Serpentine belts are GREAT! Granted they're more expensive 
than V belts, but they have to do much more work. I doubt a V belt would be 
able to handle the work that a 6 groove does.
Don't know about the Mopar stuff, but a 1/2" breaker bar is all you need to 
slip on a belt on a GM.
Harry Yarnell
Perryman Garage and Orphanage
hyarnell1 at earthlink.net
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hubbell" <whubbell at cox.net>
To: "Tim Verthein" <minoxphotographer at yahoo.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:08 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Serpentine Belt?


> Oh boy, don't talk to ME about serpentine belts!  I went to pick up my 
> wife at the airport last week in my '96 Dodge Caravan.  The idler pulley 
> was squealing loudly (Dodges all do that as they get older) and annoying 
> me, so I decided to spray a little WD-40 on it to quiet it down.  Well, of 
> course, I overdid it and the belt slipped off!  I tried like hell to get 
> the belt back on without any tools. but no luck.  I had to call a tow 
> truck to come down to the airport (I was stuck in the short term parking 
> garage at $1/hr!).  It took two hours before the tow truck arrived (my 
> wife was NOT amused!) - lucky for me he had tools and we were able to get 
> the belt back on.
>
> If it had been a Corvair, I could have driven it (slowly) home without the 
> belt.  Not possible with a water pumper -- the belt runs the water pump 
> and the on-board computer would have the engine down as soon as it got too 
> hot -- with my luck, probably on the highway (I know the exact place!!!!)
>
> Serpentine belt vs. Corvair belt?  Give me the Corvair belt any day!!!!!
>
> Bill Hubbell (whose cars don't like him very much these days!)
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tim Verthein" <minoxphotographer at yahoo.com>
> To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:26 PM
> Subject: <VV> Serpentine Belt?
>
>
> As I was complaining loudly about all the issues my wife's Windstar is
> having with it's serpintine belt...it dawned on me...can we consider
> the Corvair the first US car with a serpintine belt?  It snakes around
> and drives everything.  Except the one on our Corvair is about 38 times
> more reliable than the system in the Windstar.  And cheaper and easier
> to replace when necessary.
>
> Tim in Bovey
>
> ===
> You *can* repair a flip-flop with a capacitor!
> ===
>
>
>
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