REFLECTOR:V8 Vacuum system

[Ronnie Brown]

Could be that the folks who engineered the Mercedes belt system also
engineered those great props???


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Agnew" <jim_agnew_2@yahoo.com>
To: <reflector@tvbf.org>
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 9:37 AM
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:V8 Vacuum system


| That's what you think, on my Mercedes (at high RPMs about
| 4500) the serpentine belt failed at about 30K miles and
| exploded into a thousand fragments as well as long strings
| that lashed out and cut thru my windshield washer bottle
| and some other hoses were damaged and required replacing.
|
| Been there, done that, had to pay the bill!
|
| Jim
|
| --- Scott <scott@tnstaafl.net> wrote:
| > At 07:58 PM 11/9/2003, you wrote:
| > >My guess would be serpentine.
| > >a)  V-belts fail more often
| >
|
| > >c)  In the unlikely event of a serpentine failure,
| > everything stops and
| > >the broken belt drops into the bottom of the cowl
| >
| > Now that's wishful thinking.
| >
| > Scott
| >
| >
| > >Just a theory ... Jim S.
| > >
| > >Robin Ream wrote:
| > >>So which belt type is the least likely to break and end
| > up somewhere
| > >>where you really don't want it? Robin
| > >>----- Original Message -----
| > >>From: <mailto:dmartin@cougar.netutah.net>Dennis Martin
| > >>To: <mailto:reflector@tvbf.org>reflector@tvbf.org
| > >>Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 10:45 AM
| > >>Subject: Re: REFLECTOR:V8 Vacuum system
| > >>  How about gilmer pulleys?  (Uses "tractor belts" with
| > teeth). I've got
| > >> two gilmers, one for my dry sump oil system, another
| > for the
| > >> alternator.  Perfect alignment is required, but
| > there's no
| > >> slippage.  IMHO, as good as serpentine. Dennis Martin
| > >>>Serpentine belts are to V-Belts pretty much what
| > alternators are to
| > >>>generators IMO.
| > >>>Al Gietzen wrote:
| > >>>>Yo; Jim!
| > >>>>< The main thing that fails is the drive belt>
| > >>
| > >--
| > >Jim Sower
| > >Crossville, TN; Chapter 5
| > >Long-EZ N83RT, Velocity N4095T
| > >
| >
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