[TR] TR4 Fan Belt Replacement

[Don]

You can find it in most drug stores, dept stores , even convenience  
and dollar stores.  It's called "Pantyhose".  Stockings work just as  
well and ironically, have fewer "kinks" to deal with.


On 4-May-10, at 5:07 PM, triumphs-request at autox.team.net wrote:

> From: Dave1massey at cs.com
> Date: May 4, 2010 2:56:24 PM MDT (CA)
> To: Triumphs at autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: [TR] TR4 Fan Belt Replacement
>
>
> In a message dated 5/4/2010 2:06:53 PM Central Daylight Time,
> ahwahneetr at gmail.com writes:
>> Seems to be a problem unqiue to the TR4/4A.  I carry a length of
>> (nylon?) rope that is somewhat stretchy.  I have used it as an
>> emergency replacement and drove 100s of miles w/o a problem.  An  
>> added
>> bonus is that is can be used to just drive the water pump if the
>> generator grenades (what I had to do).
>>
>
>
> I seem to recall a product sold as an emergency fan belt.  It was a  
> linked
> affair that you would loop around the appropriate pulleys and snap  
> together
> the number of links you needed.  It was supposed to get you to a  
> place where
> you can affect proper repairs.
>
> Anyone seen this lately?