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Old Feb 23, 2003 | 03:40 PM
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I was wondering if anyone has their belt jump off when going over 6000rpm's? My friend had his rev limiter set at 6400rpms and his would come off occasionally. I did about 10 pulls on the dyno last week. I heard the power steering squaling and checked it out. My belt had jumped over a few grooves. How do you fix this problem?
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Old Feb 23, 2003 | 04:31 PM
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I have heard of it a couple times. It was coming off at the tensioner. There is a company selling a tensioner with larger outer ribs to keep the belt on at high speeds. I will try to find it again and post for you, unless someone else knows what Im talking about and beats me to it.
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Old Apr 4, 2003 | 08:45 PM
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</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by 89ws6formula50:
<strong> I have heard of it a couple times. It was coming off at the tensioner. There is a company selling a tensioner with larger outer ribs to keep the belt on at high speeds. I will try to find it again and post for you, unless someone else knows what Im talking about and beats me to it. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">I'd like to know, because I just noticed today that my belt was halfway off the tensioner and the power steering pump pulley. I was freaked out.

It obviously starts with the tensioner because thats the way it spins. If there's a fix, I WANT IT.
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Old Apr 4, 2003 | 10:52 PM
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go to www.katechengines.com and they sell a soild adjustable tensoner for a 125 bucks. this will solve the problem especialy with high torque and high horsepower ls1's. <img border="0" alt="[burn out]" title="" src="graemlins/gr_burnout.gif" />
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