On 27/02/2020 22:13, Steve Walker wrote:
On 26/02/2020 19:38, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 26/02/2020 18:25, Andrew wrote:
On 26/02/2020 13:54, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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On Wednesday, 26 February 2020 07:23:48 UTC, Jim GM4DHJ ...Â* wrote:
On 25/02/2020 21:56, mm0fmf wrote:
On 25/02/2020 21:29, Brian Gaff (Sofa 2) wrote:
If this just a fan belt make sure you have plenty of old tights
handy.
Â*Â* If its more crucial, then don't take chances.
Â*Â* Brian

He doesn't wear them. Just his wife's panties.


shut it chebs....

can't believe using nylons as a temporary replacement ever
worked...and certainly not with modern flat grooved belts with
tensioners on the engine...

I used some rope one time, just tied it as tight as I could, there was
no tensioner wheel. It slipped a lot but got me there. Nylons might
perhaps have got the fan turning slowly, enough to make it overheat
slower than no fan.


I had a fan belt snap late one night in London. RAC failed to turn
up. By
this time it was the wee small hours. So just drove home. Battery
was up
to it. and the fan turned the pump to give enough water circulation to
prevent overheating. While moving above 15 mph or so. Wouldn't have got
away with it in the rush hour, though.


There was a time when snapped V-belts were a common sight on the
roadside, but now you never see them, and I never see the flat
multi-grooved ones either (*). Instead I see many half-moon
bits of broken coil springs on the side of the road.

(*) maybe they get trapped by the undertrays that a lot of
manufacturers fit on modern cars.
you are correct not many old bangers with v belts still on the road
and serpintine ones never break ...I had spares in the boot for two
100,000 mile mercs and never used them.....

I was once a passenger in a car with a serpentine, multi-v belt. The
driver accelerated hard and suddenly the oil pressure light came on and
the car lost power.

We could see nothing wrong, but restarting gave nothing more than idling
and the oil light was still on.

It took ages to find the fault - the belt had shed a section of its
outer surface, which had hit and damaged an under-bonnet relay. That
relay was operated from the oil pressure switch and had two functions -
one was to work the oil light (hence why it was staying on) and the
other was to switch the fuel pump to full speed to give enough pressure
for normal running (hence idle only).

The remains of the relay cover were removed and a piece of the broken
cover jammed in the relay to hold the contacts closed to get us home.

SteveW

Ah, I forgot. My father's Citroen had a clutch mechanism driven off the
belt. When the clutch seized, the belt snapped and a piece about 1/2"
long managed to fire through the tiny slot between the upper and lower
timing-belt covers - with disastrous consequences.

SteveW