Return-Path: Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c2) with ESMTP id 761194 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 26 Feb 2005 23:01:47 -0500 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=66.133.182.166; envelope-from=canarder@frontiernet.net Received: from filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.68]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC35358251 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:01:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.182.166]) by filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net [66.133.183.68]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 18003-06-85 for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (67-137-89-39.dsl2.cok.tn.frontiernet.net [67.137.89.39]) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 932A235817A for ; Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:01:02 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4221459B.4080907@frontiernet.net> Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:59:23 -0600 From: Jim Sower User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040514 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Racemate alt/water pump References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 0508-3, 02/25/2005), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20040701 (2.0) at filter01.roc.ny.frontiernet.net Todd Bartrim wrote:

V-belt is cheaper and lasts longer,
Are you sure? I've never had to replace a serpentine yet. But I've seen allot of V-belts come & go.
Asked the folks who work on my car. Says V-belt lasts MUCH longer but doesn't bend both ways and is a good bit cheaper.
serpentine belts bend both ways,
multi-rib belts I haven't seen much of, but I think they're a lot like
serpentine.
Multi-rib & serpentine are the same animal, I believe. Multi-rib refers to the belt design, but the belts can vary in length. I'm using a short multi-rib belt for my alternator only, but if it was longer and was used to go around my alternator, water pump, idler pulley, power steering pump, A/C compressor, etc, then it would be called a serpentine belt. But the term is often used interchangeably.

At least that's my take on it. I could be wrong.

Todd