| Author | Message | ||
     Etennuly |
For those of you whom installing a new belt as preventative medicine on your Uly, did the tightness kill, or finish off your wheel bearings? I have not seen anyone post back about bearing failures after changing the belt. I have a new belt that is the newest part number. I have read threads about the extreme tightness of a new one. I plan on carrying the old one as a spare on long trips. My '06 just crossed 30,000 miles and my belt is able to be deflected about 3/4 of an inch in the mid area between the top of the pulleys. It may run a long time yet, it may fail. I'd rather carry the old one for a spare than have to potentially fight a new one along the roadside somewhere. | ||
| Hughlysses |
Vern- I had wondered about that too. IIRC Jlnance posted he'd changed his belt, then a few thousand miles later he changed the wheel bearings. The Koyo wheel bearings failed several thousand miles later, which would seem to indicate the pre-stretched belt did not make a difference. | ||
| Windrider |
Etennuly, New belts are tighter. They stretch out on the first 200 miles and some more on the first 2000. I used to have a belt driven Sportster. On those bikes you actually had to adjust the rear axle position when the belt was replaced. I noticed that I would have to loosen it up quite a bit for a new belt but within 2K miles it would be back in the same position as the old belt. Some say it is more related to the belt meshing to the pulleys than the belt actually stretching. | ||
| Windrider |
I should also say that after installing a new belt at 11K on my 06 Uly my wheel bearings are still fine. I just put on another rear tire (18K miles now) and the factory rear wheel bearings are still working just fine. | ||
| Bud |
i just snapped my old belt, 10k on it and was also surpriced ( in a bad way ) about the tension of the new belt. checked the part number , counted the teeth .. because i really thought i got a wrong belt, even getting the belt on the poelys was hard.. have don 300 miles on it now, but i still think its to tight, with all the bearing stuff going on, i really don't want to destroy my 5e gear bearings as well. so i'm putting on a springloaded tensioner, |
