<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">I should have mentioned two other things in my earlier post re the Balmar Belt Buddy:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">First, there are actually two parts that can be purchased either together or separately: An adjustment arm, which increases the range of that offered by most "stock" arms including that in our Healeys, and; the tensioner unit which permits one to increase/decrease belt tension by tightening a bolt versus having to loosen and lever out the alternator/generator.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff">Secondly, your google search of "Belt Buddy" will probably also show something to use on<i> your pants</i>----actually called a BeltBro--which has nothing to do with cars.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#3333ff"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 1:35 PM Michael Oritt <<a href="mailto:michael.oritt@gmail.com">michael.oritt@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Bob/All--</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Attached find a photo of what little of the "Belt Buddy" which is visible from above the big alternator I have mounted. Installing the adjuster will require your either loosening or temporarily dismounting your generator/alternator but once you have things in place belt tensioning is a piece of cake. You'll no longer have to lever out the generator with a big screw driver or the like, putting the mounting bolts in shear--merely put a socket or ratcheting wrench on the bolt head which projects from the blue piece and crank away.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Best--Michael Oritt</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 11:55 AM Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Hmmmmm ... looks like a good idea, got any photos of it installed
(not a lot of wiggle room between pulleys)?<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">After you get
the proper fan belt consider installing one of these:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Balmar-Belt-Buddy-Universal-Adjustment/dp/B00TUNIALY" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Balmar-Belt-Buddy-Universal-Adjustment/dp/B00TUNIALY</a><br>
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installation of the unit is a bit intense but once you have it
in place tensioning the belt is a piece of cake. </div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(51,51,255)">Best--Michael
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Oct 17, 2021 at 10:06
AM Bob Spidell <<a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank">bspidell@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div> I'm going to return it, with '8x10 colored glossy
photographs.'<br>
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<div>On 10/17/2021 6:43 AM, <a href="mailto:warthodson@aol.com" target="_blank">warthodson@aol.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div>The way the vendors find out about an issue is if
the customer tells them. You should forward your
message to Moss.</div>
<div>Gary Hodson<br>
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From: Bob Spidell <a href="mailto:bspidell@comcast.net" target="_blank"><bspidell@comcast.net></a><br>
To: Healeys <a href="mailto:healeys@autox.team.net" target="_blank"><healeys@autox.team.net></a><br>
Sent: Sat, Oct 16, 2021 7:52 pm<br>
Subject: [Healeys] BN2 Fan Belt<br>
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<div> 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 <i>might </i>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?<br>
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I'm shocked, SHOCKED I TELL YA', that a vendor
would sell something that could possibly work,
but isn't truly correct.<br>
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bs<br>
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