The Gates green stripe 76" was a tad to long for my billetflow 2.93 w/4/pc idlers, so I switched to next shortest Napa/Gates 75.625" belt. Take a look at my tensioner, is it to tight? FWIW, I have only driven about 15 miles with the new belt.
Belt to tight? Tensioner pic inside...
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Holy crap! Sorry, I know some think that is OK, but IMO that's way too tight.
Hye06 said:
See the mark on the fixed mount bracket, a line and the pointer on the tensioner arm? It doesn't appear to be bottomed out quite yet, course many break off the stop anyway. Can make a tight belt easier to get on. Marks supposed to be lined up, much debate about that. Nice pic btw.
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Mines at least that tight. I stretched on a 74" belt because I thought I was having belt slip. Been like that for like 6k miles already, no problems.
Damn :shrug: i just ordered a gates 75.5" belt.. cuz im still useing my stock belt and it looks to me like it might be a little too tight for my set up(in sig)... but if your 75.5" looks too tight too?!?!? so what the hell am i gonna do.. are you sure the 76" was too long?
Chunky04 said:
Just had my pullies installed today, same setup as yours. The shop went with the K080751 belt. NAPA's website shows it to be 75.625 length. Seems about right with the 4 idlers and new style bracket.
Hye06 said:
You're not missing anything but he is...he trimmed off one of the tabs. He probably did it for the same reason I did, to get the belt on.
Mine is like the arrows in this pic and I have no slip. It's your car though, so do what you want.
That is the correct size you need. Gates part#: K080751 :beer:jk03cobra said:
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