[+] Serpentine Belt Vs V Belt

Start date Dec 1 2015. I sure found a disadvantage with the serpentine belt on my Suburban when the compressor locked up while towing the Chevelle to a show.

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09062015 Even though a serpentine belt is wider and flatter than a traditional V-belt it is still lighter than a V-belt.

Serpentine belt vs v belt. If it had been a V belt I could have cut the belt on gone on rather than locate a dealer to have a new compressor installed. 03092014 Unlike individual belts tension on a serpentine belt is provided by a tensioner pulley which is under constant spring pressure. _____ ___.

It is long black thin rubbery and ribbed on the outside. One belt runs everything. City Port Allen State LA Dec 1 2015 1 On my 81 CJ-8 I upgraded the head and fuel injection to a 94 40 I replaced the alternator with a CS130 but Im still using v belts.

Get ready for some awesome ASCII artwork of a V belt cross section. V belts also derive their name from the cross-section of the belt itself. Serpentine belts dont have this same cross-section because as you can see in the 2nd photo both sides of the belt come in contact with various pulleys.

In the pulley groove at high RPM andor when the belt stretches is eliminated and a serpentine belt is also much easier to maintain and replace since there is no need to remove multiple belts in order to replace one of them although newer adjustable-length V-belts link belts can be put on without having to remove other belts and. V-Belts are still used on the majority of the older classic motors. Less belt stretch to worry about.

The most important accessories of your car engine depend on the serpentine belt for their power needs. It works great but Im wondering if the v-belt can. A serpentine belt is simply a longer version of a grooved V-belt.

09122011 Modern serpentine drives are w-a-y more reliable than v-belt systems. Not only is the serpentine belt lighter but its flat design allows for better traction from the belt while working with the pulleys. The serpentine belt is probably the most commonly used belt today and likely what youll find under the hood of your car if you drive anything newer than a 1990 model.

Its like the major V belt manufactures have given up on them and placed their focus on the flat belts. And the V belts I have bought lately just dont seem to have the durability that the flat multi grove belts have. The most important thing to keep in mind is that serpentine and V-belt setups use different timing covers and water pumps.

Final Thoughts A serpentine belt can hold the engine together for several years and helps to keep important accessories of the engine system properly functioning. Serpentine belts are used in new vehicles due to the fact that they are easier to maintain and are less complicated to install. 07122015 V Belt vs Serpentine Belt.

The multi-belt drive it replaced. Shorter belt distance between accessories. 13012005 In my opinion the serpentine belts give a more positive drive to the pulleys especially the high-output alternators.

The belt snakes its way through multiple accessories the crank pulley an idler pulley or two and a tensioner. They dont fly off at 6500 rpm with the ac on. While the initail belt cost is more you by less belts in number and over time.

Chrysler V-belt setups can be tricky because each accessory configuration uses different pullies. Serpentine belts are used in new vehicles due to the fact that they are easier to maintain and are less complicated to install. Jump to Latest Follow 1 - 7 of 7 Posts.

It takes a lot of power to drive those and with v-belts you need at least double belts and then they need to be kept pretty tight which leads to bearing failure. The thicker multi-rib design of the serpentine belt provides a better belt to pulley contact ratio that creates less slippage. 11032012 But belt length is a problem for cars.

04122005 I put a comaro small block Serpentine setup on my BBC. 30042020 Serpentine Belts vs. Need to change it.

It may or may not have grooves on both sides. Some simply like the style they give or having each of their accessories run on their own belt. The reason why it is called the serpentine belt is the belt acts like a snake.

Joined Oct 5 2007. The belt comes with several V-shaped channels that flow vertically beside the belt. In a 1600HP synchronos drive we installed several years ago for a petroleum scrubber the belt was a single banded rib-drive with a hydraulic tensioner or a serpentine.

Can anybody tell me if it worth changing over from a v-belt system to serpentine belt system on a 454BB. The serpentine setup uses the stock Magnum timing cover but you will need the LA timing cover and water pump for V-belt use. 27072019 If youre looking at your engine block the serpentine belt is often easy to notice from the front.

V belts cant be wound around idler and tensioner pulleys like the flat multi grove belts can. The above has led engineers to abandon the traditional V-belt in favor of the serpentine belt. 23032019 Serpentine vs v-belt.

The tendency for V-belts to flip over. Even industrial applications of multi-belt drives common for motors have gone the way of the Dodo. In the first photo above a V belt will ride in grooves on the pulleys.

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