[Healeys] BN2 Fan Belt

[Michael Salter]

That's total BS Bob.
The "cogs" are really just there to eliminate stress in the belt as it
curves around pulleys.
A "V" belt must ride on its side faces without the inside surface bottoming
out in any pulley.

M

On Sun., Oct. 17, 2021, 12:58 p.m. Bob Spidell, <bspidell at comcast.net>
wrote:

> It was suggested to me that the cogged belt is *designed *to grab the
> bottom of the pulley, instead of the sides. This makes some sense, any
> industrial engineers know the 'theory' on this.
>
> One thing is for sure, the cogged belt "don't *look* 'right,'" at least
> not compared to original.
>
>
> On 10/17/2021 8:13 AM, Michael Salter wrote:
>
> As I recall the original belt for a 100 is a Ferodo V161.
>  I have been using a B-45 Gates belts which sit a little lower in the
> pulley but don't contact the bottom of the pulley groove.
> https://www.biedlers-belts.com/gates-b45-belt.html
>
> M
>
>
> On Sun., Oct. 17, 2021, 10:16 a.m. David P via Healeys, <
> healeys at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>> Gates belts has a belt for industrial equipment (non automotive) that is
>> an excellent copy of the original. Unfortunately I don't remember the part
>> number.. (gets worse with age). I found it googling their web pages.. B1
>> kinda rings a bell.. happy hunting.  DP
>> On 10/17/2021 8:01 AM, Bob Spidell wrote:
>>
>> I'm going to return it, with '8x10 colored glossy photographs.'
>>
>>
>> On 10/17/2021 6:43 AM, warthodson at aol.com wrote:
>>
>> Bob,
>> The way the vendors find out about an issue is if the customer tells
>> them.  You should forward your message to Moss.
>> Gary Hodson
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> <bspidell at comcast.net>
>> To: Healeys <healeys at autox.team.net> <healeys at autox.team.net>
>> Sent: Sat, Oct 16, 2021 7:52 pm
>> Subject: [Healeys] BN2 Fan Belt
>>
>> I finally got around to fixing my loose water pump pulley and installing
>> a new fan belt. I ordered a 'cogged' belt from Moss--part#
>> 021-966--thinking it might work better than the original slab of rubber. I
>> noticed before installing that it was narrower than the original type that
>> I'd had, which had rotted, but it looked like it would work. Once I started
>> tensioning it however, it was clear it *might *work, but sat too low in
>> the pulleys, and was essentially riding on the bottom of the pulley grooves
>> instead of on the sides (and the angle of the sides of the belt was
>> incorrect). Anyone else tried one of these?
>>
>> I'm shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YA', that a vendor would sell something that
>> could possibly work, but isn't truly correct.
>>
>> bs
>>
>>
>>
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