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Subject:Re: Screeching Alternator Belt
From:David Beierl
Date:Fri, 12 May 2017 13:08:30 -0400

What Dennis said.  Hundred amp alternator is around the limit of what you
can drive with a 3/8" vee belt, and the wrap angle on the crank pulley is
deficient.

Yrs,
d

On Fri, May 12, 2017 at 12:59 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Alistair,
> Thanks for the vote of confidence.
> Ron,
> Books could be written on the short comings of the Waterboxer alternator
> drive belt design.
>