How do you adjust timing belt alignment?
How to Adjust a Timing Belt
- Park your car in a safe environment for you to work on it.
- Pop the latch and open your hood.
- Disconnect your car’s battery.
- Locate the timing belt and related apparatus.
- Remove the timing cover.
- Relax the timing belt’s tensioner.
- Adjust the timing belt as necessary.
How do you align a pulley?
How to align the pulley?
- Remove the belt (see How to replace a belt).
- Loosen the driven pulley (shaft pulley), and adjust up and down to obtain level.
- Firmly re-tighten the pulley.
- Re-install and re-adjust the belt.
What do you use to check timing belt alignment?
A simple procedure to check misalignment (both parallel and angular) is by using a straightedge (ruler) to check alignment as the previous illustration shows. The straightedge should be long enough to span the distance between the two outside edges of the timing belt pulley faces.
Can a taut timing belt stand a strong pull?
While a taut string or timing belt can stand a strong pull. Take up any loose slack in the timing belt by adjusting the center to center distance between the two timing belt pulleys. Before any final tensioning is to be applied make sure that the timing belt teeth are fully seated in the tooth grooves on both timing belt pulleys.
When to use a belt drive for pulley alignment?
4 Alignment of Pulleys and Sheaves The use of flexible belt drives represents a significant pe rcentage of all industrial power transmission applications, particularly when the speed of the driver and driven shafts are different or where shafts have to be widely separated .
What causes angular misalignment on timing belt pulleys?
Angular misalignment is where the driver and driven shafts are not parallel. Resulting in uneven loading of the timing belt tensile cords. The tensile cords on the high tension side are often overloaded which may cause edge cord failure which would be transmitted across the width of the timing belt.