[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V10 #340

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Mike in Texas wrote:

> All this talk of belt tension and broken belts...has anybody ever seen a
> case where the belt itself ever failed?  My experience is that the teeth
> shear at the driving pulley, causing the belt, and hence everything driven
> by it, to stop.

I had a friend whose '77 VW Rabbit had the belt break, thanks to no maintenance on the car. I replaced it on the side of the road and the thing ran fine for years afterward. The old belt was frayed and splintered when I removed its carcass from the engine and engine compartment.

Tom
Seattle
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