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Originally posted by SoCal Driver
A non-op belt will take a "set". When it's run again it does not like to be unbent. A few hundred passes around the pullies and being reversed over the water pump fractures the rubber and the backing. Then it breaks.

The 90 degrees works on the long pass for the balance belt. Timing belt is too wide and close to the reverse at the water pump.
That can't be good! Thx for the complete info.

I'll get to start doing this over the next few days.
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Old 07-27-2005, 09:00 PM
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