Re: [MV] CUCV Belt Squeal

From: kuhrick (kuhrick@comcast.net)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 03:02:19 PDT


in ac work
worn pulleys (we call them shives) shiny and wider than they should be
makes the belts slip and ware out to fast

At 09:36 PM 5/24/02 -0700, you wrote:
>I once tried to iliminate the squealing by tightening
>the belts, only to find out that I ended up
>prematurely wearing out the bearings in the alts.
>I've thought about upgrading the V-belts to a modern
>belt design, but with the cost and labor intensive job
>involved, I'd rather listen to the squeal during the
>warm up.
>
>Brian



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