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     Dualbuells |
I've seen the threads on carrying a spare drive belt, but I've tried a few different ways of coiling the belt and cannot get it small enough to fit into area under passenger seat. Twisting it like you would a band saw blade doesn't get it small enough. Going on week ride to West Virginia etc. in two weeks and would like to try to carry a spare. Any help on method of coiling or point to a helpful thread is greatly appreciated! | ||
| Ratbuell |
Don't put any bends in it tighter than the front pulley diameter. Other than that...I dunno. I have a spare zip-tied to the bottom of my Ulysses' topcase rack, but that's the only spare I carry on a regular basis. The tubers run floppy-loose on purpose, and the CR is still new enough I haven't worried about it yet. Maybe loose-coil it, and zip tie it between the passenger peg brackets under the undertail? Won't look all that sexy, but it should work... | ||
| Sprintst |
Don't ask me how to do it, but I remembered seeing it in a thread, and found it for ya http://www.badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/290431/517457.html  (Message edited by sprintst on June 03, 2012) (Message edited by sprintst on June 03, 2012) | ||
| Dmfb88 |
It goes under the drivers seat and you should get American Sportbike seat pins. Zack I believe is the one in the picture | ||
| Dualbuells |
Sprintst - Thanks for the photo, that makes a whole lot more sense putting in under the drivers seat, more room there than under pillion seat. I have the seat pins from American Sport Bike, one of the first things I put on when I got it. I just installed a new belt and figured the one that come off was only frayed a little from the accident, it would be good enough for a emergency spare for my annual trip to the twisties, an once of prevention! Thanks to all! | ||
| Zac4mac |
When I was looking for a place to put the belt, someone here suggested "fold" it like a bandsaw blade. I understood and it worked - essentially flip the loop into an "8" and fold the 2 loops onto each other. The belt in the picture is on Loretta now with over 10k miles since that pic. Z | ||
| Avalaugh |
I used my old belt as a spare, not to sure how good it is for them to be wrapped up like this ? If you turn belt inside out its easier to loop it up.  | ||
| Kevmean |
Avalaugh .... that belt will have been seriously weakend mate by folding it so tight, as suggested earlier as a rule of thumb the smallest radius should be approx the same size as the front pulley and it is even more important not to reverse bend a belt too tightly. Also twisting is a no no for drive belts so twisting into a figure of 8 is also bad practice. | ||
| Dualbuells |
Kevmean - I believe the idea is since you can't carry a master link to repair a belt, the purpose of the "spare" belt is to get you out of a bind temporarily until your able to purchase new. It's only meant to be a stop gap, so given that principle, I go into this knowing it's not the "best" way to handle a drive belt. I'm just sayin'  | ||
| Kevmean |
A very good link to advice for handling and storing belts . http://www.pfeiferindustries.com/timing_beltshandl ing.htm | ||
| Sprintst |
The heat is doing to degrade the belt a lot being stored in there, but as mentioned, it's an emergency item | ||
| Syonyk |
I have mine curled up somehow in there as well. It's a used belt with 25k miles or so on it. The way I look at it, an old, degraded, poorly-stored belt that is in one piece is still in better shape than a belt that has come apart. All I ask of it at that point is that it hold gentle riding to get me somewhere I can replace the belt with a new one (ideally home). The intact belt you have with you is still better than the broken belt you just left on the road... | ||
| Zac4mac |
A couple of things - Paul(avalaugh) the way you coiled yours, it will break soon after install. The way you did it puts 2 spots in a very tight bend, it will break at one of those points. The "bandsaw" coil has no sharp bends. As far as heat, when I first put mine under the seat, I also checked temperature there. Barely above ambient which was in the 70s when I checked. Zack |
