[Healeys] 100 fanbelts

[Bill Kollar]

This brings to mind a 54 BN1 Fan Belt Story.

Mid to late 60's or so,  I was traveling home, in my  54, 100-4 after 
going to the Sunday afternoon  NASCAR Sportsman/Modified races at 
Victoria Speedway, off Rt 20 in NY.   On the way home I blew a fan belt 
while going through a very small village, a one gas station town.   
Since the gas station was my only hope to get running again I walked 
there, went inside and discussed the situation with the 
attendant/owner.  As expected, he did not have a Healey belt in stock 
but he let me rummage through a bunch of old belts he had stored in a 
back room.

It took me about 15 or 20 minutes or so to find a belt that looked as if 
it might fit, close to the proper width and length.  I believe it was a 
belt for some tractor trailer.  He wanted $10.00 for it, I only had 
$5.00, he took the $5 and I was off to attempt an installation.  I 
cleaned the belt, as best as I could and installed It, the fit was not 
perfect but basically okay  It did however protrude slightly higher 
above the pulley than the one that had blown.  I left that belt on the 
car for a couple more years with no further problems.

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On 5/4/2024 4:38 PM, mike brooks via Healeys wrote:
> The fanbelt for a 100 should be 3/4" wide and 1/2" deep in a V shape. 
> 3/4" wide (19mm) is not a currently standard metric size. I've just 
> bought a replacement  belt from one of the usual UK suppliers. It's 
> 22mm wide and doesn't sit in the pulleys properly. I then went to 
> another supplier who claims to be selling the correct width belt. It 
> turned out to be exactly the same 22mm size. I've researched this, and 
> these belts are standard modern metric size "C". The belt that came 
> off my 100 ( it had been there for at least 20 years and 12000 miles) 
> was a B1130 B43 belt, 17mm wide. It sat slightly low in the pulley 
> grooves, but was much more flexible than the 22mm belts and was 
> altogether a better fit.
>
> What are others using for their 100 fan belts? Note I don't want to 
> convert to narrow belts and pulleys.
>
> Mike
> 56 BN2
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