About one-third of the electric motors in the industrial and commercial sectors use belt drives. Belt drives provide flexibility in the positioning of the motor relative to the load. Pulleys (sheaves) ...

Working as a General Motors and ASE Master Technician, teaching automotive technology and being involved in the auto repair ...

Most vehicles have a rubber belt on the front of the engine that drives accessories such as the air-conditioning compressor, power steering pump and alternator. If this accessory drive belt (also ...

“Replace chains when ‘stretch’ exceeds 2% of their original length,” says Greg Madlinger, Daido Chain. If a chain’s original length is unknown, consider this: The distance between the pins on a roller ...

Whether or not you can adjust or replace a belt yourself depends on the type of belt(s) you have. On most modern vehicles, a single, long, flat belt called a serpentine multiaccessory drive belt (see ...

The most common systems for transmitting power from a drive to a driven shaft are belt, gear, and chain drives. But V-belt drive systems, also called friction drives (because power is transmitted as a ...

For starters, the whole front sheetmetal clip had to come off for access, plus the fact the radiator was going to be changed too. The decision was made to switch to a serpentine belt system rather ...