<VV> Theoretical recommendations.

[Dennis Pleau]

When I was in High School, I use to toss a couple of belts a week.  I always
assumed it was because I wasn't putting them on tight enough, so I would put
the next one on tighter.  

I was using a crowbar one day and snapped one of the ears on the generator
mount.  When I got back to Corvair in the early 80's and joined (Silicon)
Valley CORSA and CORSAS and learned to tension the belt properly and almost
all my belt problems went away.

I can only think of one belt problem when I daily drove Corvairs from 1984
through 2004 and that belt had 13K miles on it when it let go.  I also had a
belt failure on my Greenbrier right after I bought it.  I had ordered a new
belt and a spare and received them the day before and they were sitting on
my workbench.  Debbie gave me a hard time because she had to go from work to
our house and open up the box and bring me the belt.

dp

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Charles Fregeau
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 3:32 PM
To: 'Bryan Blackwell'
Cc: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Theoretical recommendations.

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I was also told by an experienced Corvair owner I know that we shouldn't
have had to replace the belts as often as we did, that the mechanic we had
in those days was overtightening the belts a bit.  (We always carried a
spare belt, just because.)  

<snip>

Charles