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Unread 04-09-2012, 22:36
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Re: Timing belt in drive success

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Originally Posted by R.C. View Post
Brendan,

If your doing a WCD like 254/968 have done. Then broach the pulleys.

If you really wanna save some weight and lower part count just do center to center on belts. Don't even put in the bearing blocks. Sdp has a real nice calculator on their site to determine the correct c-c.

-RC
Using the SDP calculator for spacing will the belts loose tension overtime?
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