

| Subject: | Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating?-V-belt drive rating |
| From: | Old Volks Home |
| Date: | Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:12:26 -0700 |
Nope Continental no longer supplies 9.5, except for the Beetle/Ghia/Bus Generator Belt from 61 (111 903 137 D 9.5x905) Even belts for the Far Eastern made cars have always been 10mm from their origins, with exceptions to wider ones for A/C of course. -- Jim Thompson 84 GL 1.9 "Gloria" 84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt" 72 411 Station Wagon "Pug" 75 914 1.8 "Nancy" Full Timing From March 1999 To January 2012 oldvolkshome@gmail.com http://www.oldvolkshome.com Find me on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Thompson/100000710343835 *********************************** On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Rocket J Squirrel <camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote: > I've not seen a 9.5mm belt available. Anyone sell them? > > > -- > Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott > 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, > Bend, Ore. > > On 09/24/2012 05:56 AM, Mike Riley wrote: >> >> mr rocket. >> you are running the wrong size belt it should be a 9.5 mm belt,gates in >> fact calls the next us size up a 10mm belt. A 9.5 belt has a much larger >> contact patch with the pulley and rides deep in the groove. >> a so called 10mm belt requires too much pressure to keep from slipping and >> results in broken alt mounts and blown waterpumps. JUST BECAUSE EVERYBODY >> SELLS THE WRONG BELT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT! they also sell you a kit to fix >> the damage. >> mike >> >> >> Samuel Butler-- "One can bring no greater reproach against a man than to >> say that he does not set sufficient value upon pleasure, and there is no >> greater sign of a fool than the thinking that he can tell at once and easily >> what it is that pleases him. To know this is not easy, and how to extend our >> knowledge of it is the highest and most neglected of all arts and branches >> of education." >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Automatic digest processor<LISTSERV@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> >> To: Recipients of vanagon digests<vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> >> Sent: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:10:33 -0400 (EDT) >> Subject: vanagon Digest - 23 Sep 2012 - Special issue (#2012-183) >> >> There are 22 messages totalling 1140 lines in this issue. >> >> Topics in this special issue: >> >> 1. ilto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of >> Rocket J Squirrel >> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:15 PM >> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM >> Subject: Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating?-V-belt drive rating. >> >> "This is why belt tension is so important [...]" >> >> Lame-o confession: I never know when my belt tension is right. The >> push-to-check-deflection thing is so subjective to me that I just don't >> trust my results. The engine squeals sometimes when I start it. Reckon >> it's >> the belt. >> >> -- >> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott >> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans, >> Bend, Ore. >> >> On 09/23/2012 07:51 AM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
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