V-belt quality

[laraa at sympatico.ca]

Maybe the belt doesn't stretch that much, it may be the pulleys that are too
worn. Your new belt is just wide enough to fill the worn pulleys, and when
it wears a bit, it goes deeper, making you believe it's stretching.

If nothing works, try a slightly wider belt : 10x950 is a 10mm by 950mm
belt. Maybe a 11mm or a 12mm belt would work.

Louis-Alain


-----Message d'origine-----
De : quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com] De
la part de Peter Orban
Envoyé : 2 janvier 2013 16:28
À : quattro at audifans.com
Objet : V-belt quality

Hello Everyone,

Happy New Year to Everyone!

Question about V-belt quality, the make I have been using keeps stretching.
The V-belt in question is the Continental AVX10X950 (my apologies, it is on
a VW Golf ;-). It has the V notches and the reinforcing belts are only at
the outer edge. 

My son lost the previous belt, it was a bit loose, it started screeching
occasionally around 3K RPM. We kept tightening the belt, about every two
month or so. 

Now I put on a new belt, also the same Continental make. It was tight when I
put it on, and now, a couple of days later it is not so tight.
Is that normal? I don't think so!

Thanks, Peter
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