<VV> Fan belt tension?

[MarK Durham]

I've had a wrapped belt roll on its side and stay there and run. It rolled
coming in to the generator and was straight at the fan pulley and harmonic
balancer. I was amazed when I popped the lid and saw it. Mark Durham Hauser
Idaho
On Feb 28, 2014 1:04 PM, "Lonny Clark" <lclarkpdx at gmail.com> wrote:

> In the early '80s when I was young and broke, I ran around 10,000 mile with
> a generator that had one broken ear ('63 Spyder) and a ten year old belt.
> The generator just sort of rested on the turkey roaster, and the belt had 3
> or 4 inches of play. You could pull the belt off of the pulley with one
> finger.
>
> And it never came off while the engine was running.
>
> Lonny
>
> Lonny Clark
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Bryan Blackwell <bryan at skiblack.com>
> wrote:
>
> > To add to what Frank says here, one of our members just pulls straight
> > back on the pulley, as a limit to how much tension he can put on the
> belt.
> >  I find that pulling on the pulley hub works well for me.  Basically if
> you
> > take all the slack out, that's generally tight enough.
> >
> > --Bryan
> >
> > On Feb 23, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Frank DuVal wrote:
> >
> > > That's how we have done it for 30 years. A tight belt flips off faster.
> > >
> > > Well, usually I do not need the screwdriver, hammer handle or pry bar
> > > since I am just going for tight enough to still turn the
> > > generator/alternator pulley with my finger.
> > >
> > > Also, that pulley by the distributor is an adjustable idler pulley, not
> > > a tensioner. Tensioner implies an automatic adjustment. This is manual.
> > >
> > > Frank DuVal
> >
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