hemidup

I had a problem with belt slip and throwing the belt as well. I run 15 psi with a 3" pulley on my Paxton 1500. To help from throwing the 7 rib belt, I fabbed up a bracket and used a screen door turnbuckle to keep the stock tensioner tight at all times. I added a through bolt through the tensioner pulley and attached one end of the turnbuckle to the through bolt and the other end to the fabbed up bracket. Then I just tighten the turnbuckle. As far as belt slip, you guy's can laugh if you want, but I put VHT on the rib side of the belt. I carry 2 spare VHT prepped belts with me when I go to the track plus the one on the truck. I prepped them and then store them in a Ziplock plastic bag. I can get around 10-12 passes before I see any loss in boost so I rotate them out after every 6 passes or so just to be safe. Don't apply VHT to the belt when it's on the truck. It makes a total mess in the engine compartment. This may sound like a backwoods fix, but it works for me.

Mangled03gmc

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Thanks for the info guys.. I think I am going to do what a fellow member here done in the past. I am going to move the pulleys around to get more of a bite on the pulley.. Then if that doesn't work, I am going to snag the tensioner from maggie...

John

NegraRCSB2X4auto

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Post up some pics on how you did it and what parts are needed. I've been wanting to do this too. I wonder if ati will trade our old brackets for the newer ones the have more belt wrap.

Superado

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https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...lt+wrap+pulley

Y2KLimited

wouldn't do it with corvettes years back, I doubt they'll do it with trucks.

or they could have just done it right the first time vs. rushing them out.

NegraRCSB2X4auto

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He had to do something different other than just swapping the locations because the bolts he swapped are two different sizes.

NegraRCSB2X4auto

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I guess that answers my question.

Mangled03gmc

iTrader: (95)

It is done, yes all that was needed was to switch the idlers with the spacers, your done. Only have to drill out 1 idler to allow the bigger bolt to go threw. The other on has the same size bolt as the idler..

https://www.performancetrucks.net/fo...d.php?t=429718


John