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Re: pic: 2791 Drivetrain Close-Up

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Originally Posted by MattC9 View Post
Its sooo clean!! But if you snap a belt or if you have to perform work on the intervals if the drive (belts ect.) how do you get in there?
The access window you see, combined with the access at the ends of the tubes gave us enough room to thread a belt into the system and install it with about 7 minutes of work. We never had a belt failure, though.

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Originally Posted by Jeffy View Post
There appear to be sliders on each side of the central pulley. Is it safe to assume those are to ensure the proper belt wrap?

Very Clean, this style drive is something we will be looking into this offseason.
Yes. I would highly recommend this style of drive to anyone, though using two belts instead of a serpentine belt is probably a little safer.

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Originally Posted by nnfuller View Post
I am slightly confused I feel as if i must be missing something... how do you get enough traction between the belt and that pulley. It feels like there must be a detail not shown by this view.
The picture is a bit misleading - it's a top down view of a single serpentine belt, so you can't really see how it engages the middle pulley. The bottom of the belt is wrapped around idlers to engage the pulley. The top of it (what you can see) just goes past it.

Always ensure proper belt wrap! It's super important.

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Originally Posted by nahstobor View Post
Looks like the mounting plate is for another motor. Were you planning for 2 FP motors in the kit?
We added 2 more motors when we anticipated using RS-775s in our drivetrain. A 6 motor single speed seemed cheaper than a 4 motor shifter. Then we came in 20 pounds underweight and our motors had case shorts, so we didn't really need them and pulled them off.

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Glad you've got your head on straight about axles now...

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