[alfa] Re: alfa-digest V10 #410

[Joe Elliott <jee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I figured this was a joke, and that it referred to V6 engines, but 
I've had this same thought before in a non-joking context.  It may 
seem goofy at first, but why not have two .75" belts instead of one 
1.5" belt?  Volvo and Saab never hesitated to use redundant v-belts 
on alternators and water pumps, even though those failures won't 
damage anything.  I've gotten the impression that most V6 timing belt 
failures were in fact tensioner failures, but I'd be a lot more 
comfortable using a Zat tensioner for example, if there were two 
belts there to give me some warning before I was faced with a 
catastrophic failure.

Joe Elliott
'82 GTV-6


At 8:28 PM +0000 11/11/04, alfa-digest wrote:

> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:29:34 +0000
> From: hagen_jason@domain.elided
> Subject: Re: [alfa] Re: Chain to belt conversion
>
> Just to clarify, I meant it as a joke!  I was suggesting that it 
> would provide valuable redundency to protect the thousands of V6 
> valves that have been ruined on our precious Alfas...
>
> - --
> Jason Hagen
> Chicago, IL
> '73 Spider
> '95 164Q
> '91 164S
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