serious belt shread problem, desperately need help...!

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vnvracing

Discussion Starter · Jul 8, 2007

Hey everyone let me start out by first sayin I'm very upset with my kit, this is the third belt i've shreaded and i can't even enjoy the car anymore...

Ive shreaded 1 gates and 2 gators, I don't know what to do...

OK whats happening is the belt keeps getting closer and closer to the idler pulleys wall and its rubbing the wall and eventually walking over it, causing the belt to shread it seems to only really happen when i'm getting on my car... I don't know where to turn.. Or what to do anymore... all this money spent all this time, and this shit sucks... is the tensioner bent? is something not lined up right...? Why is the damn belt walking over the wall on the idler pulley? why why why?

has anybody else ever had this problem?

please help

Frank

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knwldge54

· #2 · Jul 8, 2007

Did you check and break in the belt before starting the car?
Maybe the hose clamp near the w/p is tearing them apart :dontknow:

vnvracing

Discussion Starter · #3 · Jul 8, 2007

knwldge54 said:
Did you check and break in the belt before starting the car?
Maybe the hose clamp near the w/p is tearing them apart :dontknow:

good theory but i already took car of that problem... it was doing that before, but i shaved it down, and it clears it by a good inch now... and I put the stock crank back on, thats not it..

slc14

· #4 · Jul 8, 2007

check the tensioner and idler pullies themselves and make sure they are perfect circles and they arnt cracked anywear. i had a hairline crack in my tensioner pully when i installed and it sho my belt right off the pullies upon startup. other then that check the alignment of all the pullies. i used a long ass ratchet extension to see if they wear perfectly straight one at a time. i would also check aything in the belts path sucj as the hose clamp that it could be rubbing on.

Ryan

· #5 · Jul 8, 2007

how many miles into the belt are they shreading?

Ryan

· #6 · Jul 8, 2007

and what pulley are you running? what size belt?

G

· #7 · Jul 8, 2007

Post pics of your belt alignment. New, not shredded.

Str8edgeRSX

· #8 · Jul 8, 2007

yea we need some more info.

check alignment of pulley's, then check pulley's for defects or problems...then report back.

G

· #9 · Jul 8, 2007

My $$$ says installer error.

slc14

· #10 · Jul 8, 2007

^^ agreed

vnvracing

Discussion Starter · #11 · Jul 8, 2007

2

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alright I've been through about 3 idler pulleys so far, so I know it isn't a crack on the pulley or anything, it seems to be shreading about 150 miles into it and it goes when i get on it...

here are some pics of the pulleys and how they are off I thought this could be a reason,
I will have to get more pics later

another thing, my power stearing pulley has nicks in the teeth, it happened when we were trying to hold it to put it on, but we shaved it down so its pretty much smooth, but i mean its not perfect, I'm running a 3.4 pulley soon to be a 3.0

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slc14

· #12 · Jul 8, 2007

im not running a manual tensioner but that does not look right at all

DC5 FTW

· #13 · Jul 8, 2007

vnvracing said:
alright I've been through about 3 idler pulleys so far, so I know it isn't a crack on the pulley or anything, it seems to be shreading about 150 miles into it and it goes when i get on it...

here are some pics of the pulleys and how they are off I thought this could be a reason,
I will have to get more pics later

another thing, my power stearing pulley has nicks in the teeth, it happened when we were trying to hold it to put it on, but we shaved it down so its pretty much smooth, but i mean its not perfect, I'm running a 3.4 pulley soon to be a 3.0

the belt is suppose to be broken in after a good 300-400 miles before you can really get on it. That might be the problem and yea, the idlers pulley doesnt look right at all..

mateo

· #14 · Jul 8, 2007

I would re-check the Alt, PS Pump installation, and would add a oil washer in between the fixed idler spacer, and the one half of that tensioner, thus to bring that pulley in-line w/the other idler. That is not the reason you are chucking belts left and right. Maybe you are tighting the hell out of the belt. Try breaking in the belt for a hundred miles or so then slowly going tighter, but allowing some slip, then just tighten untill the slip goes away then you are done. Its not that hard really. Dont rev the car over 6K untill the belt is broken in. NJoy!

:hi:

G

· #15 · Jul 8, 2007

A thought: Could the scissor be bent?

mateo

· #16 · Jul 8, 2007

erik loza said:
A thought: Could the scissor be bent?

It could be. Easy enought to tell on his end. 99.9% of the time its because the belt was to bloody tight in the first place.

-Mateo

G

· #17 · Jul 8, 2007

Sure. I would dismount the idlers, then lay the scissor on a piece of flat glass and see if it rocks.

mateo

· #18 · Jul 8, 2007

Only reason it looks that way is because of the one idler not being bolted in place, and he has it tilted back a bit as he is takig that photo. Its'in the enlinement.

-Mateo

vnvracing

Discussion Starter · #19 · Jul 8, 2007

i think the tensioner is bent

seriously

G

· #20 · Jul 8, 2007

I'm trying to remember if there's a washer between the shoulder of that tapered spacer and the pulley, but can't. That what's missing.

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