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Paul and all,
My girlfriend's brothers have over the road trucks and do their own maintenance. They
tell me that most of their belt problems are caused by poor pulley alignment (Even on new
Trucks from the factory)........FWIW
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Kelly Troyer
Dyke Delta/13B/RD1C/EC2
> Paul wrote:
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> > Hi, Todd....I have had to replace the serpentine belt on my Ford motor
> > home. (Broke on the highway on the way to a canard fly-in of course).
> > All of our tractor-trailer units have serpentine belts. Fairly high
> > failure rate. I always keep at least 12 different serpentine belts (2
> > of each size) in my repair truck so that I can fix them on the
> > roadside. We use Gates and/or Goodyear. In fairness, however, a few
> > of the older units have a V belt for the alternator. They fail as
> > well. Don't know which type of belt fails more frequently, but they
> > both fail with regularity. Now if we changed them at every annual
> > condition inspection, however..... Paul Conner
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