What happens if you loose your timing belt?
Proper tensioning cannot be stressed enough, to loose of tensioning will cause the timing belt to ratchet (tooth jumping), while too tight of tensioning will possibly cause damage to the bearings, shafts and other drive components besides dramatically reducing timing belt life.
What’s the best way to tension a timing belt?
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.
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.
How does sonic tension work on timing belts?
Timing belts, like string, vibrate at a particular natural frequency based on mass and span length. By measuring this natural frequency of a free stationary timing belt span the sonic tension meter is able to instantly compute the static timing belt tension based upon the timing belt span length, timing belt width and timing belt type.
What should the tension be on the timing belt?
In addition, the timing belt should always be correctly tensioned: not too slack and not too tight. If the timing belt is insufficiently tense, there is a danger that it will ping off. If it is too tight, all of the bearings will be stressed, which is definitely also a bad thing. You’ll notice this thanks to the loud running noise.
What should I do when my timing belt is removed?
Check to make sure that the motor is OFF, a lock-out/ tag-out procedure should be in place to prevent accidentally motor start-ups. Loosen motor mounting bolts. Move motor until existing timing belt is slack and can be removed without prying.
Are there any side effects to a timing belt?
Even though a timing belt has teeth, please don’t ask your dentist about risks and side effects. They’ll only have the same things to say about timing belts as many of their fellow laymen: “If the timing belt needs to be replaced, that’ll be expensive!” or “If the timing belt snaps, the engine will be a write-off!”
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.