Re: [MV] CUCV Belt Squeal

From: Stu Ellis (stuellis@attbi.com)
Date: Sat May 25 2002 - 04:13:00 PDT


Mine don't squeal. Are you sure the correct belts are on it?

                 Stu
Southern New Hampshire, USA
"Live Free Or Die"

MVPA #14790 MVMVC
1967 M151A1 Army Jeep
1964 M416 1/4 Ton Trailer
1986 M1009 CUCV
----- Original Message -----
From: "kuhrick" <kuhrick@comcast.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 6:02 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] CUCV Belt Squeal

> 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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