When you consider the durability of serpentine belt drive systems it makes you wonder how we ever got along without them. For decades we dealt with all of the frustrations of V-belt drive, belt ...

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“Replace chains when ‘stretch’ exceeds 2% of their original length,” says Greg Madlinger, Daido Chain. If a chain’s original length is unknown, consider this: The distance between the pins on a roller ...

Most vehicles have a rubber belt on the front of the engine that drives accessories such as the air-conditioning compressor, power steering pump and alternator. If this accessory drive belt (also ...

About one-third of the electric motors in the industrial and commercial sectors use belt drives. Belt drives provide flexibility in the positioning of the motor relative to the load. Pulleys (sheaves) ...

Zak is new to the CarBuzz team, working as a freelance content writer. When Zak isn't writing How To articles for CarBuzz he's working as a high school automotive technology instructor. Before ...

Unless you’re driving an electric car, you have at least one accessory drive belt under your hood known as the “serpentine belt” because of the way it snakes around the engine bay. All belts wear and ...