Drive belts sit at the center of your engine’s daily workload, and the material slowly pays the price. As miles add up, heat, ...
This is a typical small-block Chevy serpentine-belt drive on the front of a 350. This particular application is a little more complicated because of the Paxton installation, but you can see the belt ...
Over-tensioning shortens not only the life of V-belts but also that of the sheaves, electric motor, and driven equipment bearings. In extreme cases, it can even bend or break a motor shaft.
Harley-Davidsons are special. Aside from their unique "potato-potato" exhaust note, they stand apart from most motorcycles mainly due to their single-pin crankshaft design and their belt final drives.
If you’ve been following all the e-bike content we’ve been churning out on InsideEVs, you’re well aware that today’s e-bikes are so much more than bicycles with motors strapped onto them. Consumers ...