Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 08:12:26 -0700
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From: Old Volks Home <oldvolkshome@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating?-V-belt drive rating
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Nope
Continental no longer supplies 9.5, except for the Beetle/Ghia/Bus
Generator Belt from 61 (111 903 137 D 9.5x905)
Even belts for the Far Eastern made cars have always been 10mm from
their origins, with exceptions to wider ones for A/C of course.
--
Jim Thompson
84 GL 1.9 "Gloria"
84 Westfalia 2.1 "Ole Putt"
72 411 Station Wagon "Pug"
75 914 1.8 "Nancy"
Full Timing From March 1999 To January 2012
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Rocket J Squirrel
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've not seen a 9.5mm belt available. Anyone sell them?
>
>
> --
> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
> Bend, Ore.
>
> On 09/24/2012 05:56 AM, Mike Riley wrote:
>>
>> mr rocket.
>> you are running the wrong size belt it should be a 9.5 mm belt,gates in
>> fact calls the next us size up a 10mm belt. A 9.5 belt has a much larger
>> contact patch with the pulley and rides deep in the groove.
>> a so called 10mm belt requires too much pressure to keep from slipping and
>> results in broken alt mounts and blown waterpumps. JUST BECAUSE EVERYBODY
>> SELLS THE WRONG BELT DOES NOT MAKE IT RIGHT! they also sell you a kit to fix
>> the damage.
>> mike
>>
>>
>> Samuel Butler-- "One can bring no greater reproach against a man than to
>> say that he does not set sufficient value upon pleasure, and there is no
>> greater sign of a fool than the thinking that he can tell at once and easily
>> what it is that pleases him. To know this is not easy, and how to extend our
>> knowledge of it is the highest and most neglected of all arts and branches
>> of education."
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
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>> To: Recipients of vanagon digests<vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
>> Sent: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:10:33 -0400 (EDT)
>> Subject: vanagon Digest - 23 Sep 2012 - Special issue (#2012-183)
>>
>> There are 22 messages totalling 1140 lines in this issue.
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>> Topics in this special issue:
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>> 1. ilto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
>> Rocket J Squirrel
>> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2012 12:15 PM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Alternator continuous-duty rating?-V-belt drive rating.
>>
>> "This is why belt tension is so important [...]"
>>
>> Lame-o confession: I never know when my belt tension is right. The
>> push-to-check-deflection thing is so subjective to me that I just don't
>> trust my results. The engine squeals sometimes when I start it. Reckon
>> it's
>> the belt.
>>
>> --
>> Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
>> 1984 Westfalia, auto trans,
>> Bend, Ore.
>>
>> On 09/23/2012 07:51 AM, Dennis Haynes wrote:
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