Auto Repair: When to Replace Car Engine Drive Belts Pt.3
Table of contents for Auto Repair: When to Replace Car Engine Drive Belts
- Auto Repair: When to Replace Car Engine Drive Belts
- Auto Repair: When to Replace Car Engine Drive Belts Pt.2
- Auto Repair: When to Replace Car Engine Drive Belts Pt.3
That’s the reason why you kind of want to know this stuff, plus if you’re going on a trip you’ll want look at them, notice if there were any cracks in them, if there were any cracks then you’ll probably want to take it to a care facility and have somebody else, I think I need my alternator belt replaced.
There’s a lot of things that for knowing just little things that can help you in the long run, so when somebody comes to you and say well you need an alternator belt replaced, well why it’s not squealing, it’s not screeching can you show me…they say well they run their hand on it and they pull off of this black stuff that doesn’t necessarily mean the belts bad, usually a belts bad when you see lots of cracks in it.
Alright this is what a drive belt looks like off a car and as you can see if you flip it inside out you have these channels right here and this is where the cracks will form when a drive belt starts to go bad, you’ll have lots of little hair line cracks on all these ridges and when you see those cracks that’s when you know it’s time to replace your drive belt. This drive belt happens to be in good shape, that’s a drive belt.
In case you didn’t see the video in part 1 of this series… here it is again.
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