<VV> Serpentine Belt?

[Bill Hubbell]

Well, of course it was my stupidity that caused the thrown belt, and sure, I 
agree that the serpentine belt is better than a bunch of V belts.  However, 
this is a Corvair List, and the real point of my story was that if I had 
been driving a Corvair I could still have driven it even if I threw a belt.

Believe, me, I was thinking about that while waiting for the Tow Truck!

Bill Hubbell


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Harry Yarnell" <hyarnell1 at earthlink.net>
To: "Bill Hubbell" <whubbell at umich.edu>; "Tim Verthein" 
<minoxphotographer at yahoo.com>; <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Serpentine Belt?


> 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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