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Tech Information => General Help => Topic started by: moz_21 on February 16, 2018, 10:59:57 AM

Title: Shorter drive belt experiment
Post by: moz_21 on February 16, 2018, 10:59:57 AM

Has anyone experimented with a shorter drive belt? I'm using the stock 1078 belt but am out of jackshaft adjustment. I wanted to try running a little tighter belt to fix some bogging. Clutches are aligned with the tool.

Title: Re: Shorter drive belt experiment
Post by: gixxer6 on February 16, 2018, 11:52:29 AM

Did you try another belt?  If you adjusted the center to center distance with the tool and the belt is too loose I would think there is a problem with the belt...

Title: Re: Shorter drive belt experiment
Post by: moz_21 on February 16, 2018, 12:40:03 PM

New belts yields very minimal improvement. I also have minor grooving on my primary clutch that I just noticed, toward the bottom. However, belt deflection is a little high, 1 3/4.

Title: Re: Shorter drive belt experiment
Post by: gixxer6 on February 16, 2018, 12:48:26 PM

Maybe the bogging isn't caused by the clutches/belt? 

Title: Re: Shorter drive belt experiment
Post by: moz_21 on February 16, 2018, 12:49:46 PM

Quote from: gixxer6 on February 16, 2018, 12:48:26 PM

Maybe the bogging isn't caused by the clutches/belt?

Might not be. To be fair, I grew up on this thing and it's never ran better than I've got out now. Crank seals are amazing.

Title: Re: Shorter drive belt experiment
Post by: JDmatt on February 25, 2018, 12:31:38 PM

Running a shorter belt would lower clutch engagement and upshift, I don't think that would help with a bogging issue.