Posted May 31, 201312 yr i have belt slip... not tons but enough... and my cold idle charge is 14.1 and hot is 13.8 ..... MIA will get me at 15 cold 14ish hot.... both are about 200 bucks..... the idle pulley will be 200 plus the new belt 60 bucks for a good one
May 31, 201312 yr idler pulley, if it goes, or belt comes off, well, then you're in a whole different world of trouble, had this happen to a vehicle in a minus 30 degree blizzard driving on a highway over an hour drive from any city...Great feeling... Edited May 31, 201312 yr by nigel
May 31, 201312 yr Author to make it clear it only slips when my 10 horse power alternator is working... so under heavy draw it slips a bit... and this is not my daily driver.
June 1, 201312 yr I get where you are conning from, but I would much much rather have a mechanical upgrade and security than add another device that has a possibility to fail electronicly
June 1, 201312 yr id do the diode trick i posted a while back. Cost you like 3$ and maybe an hour of your time.
June 1, 201312 yr Author yeah he was not making them, after i got my h/o but recently started stocking them again... so now its an option. and the diode trick is a fast way to burn up an alternator.. all it does is trick the alternator into thinking its putting out less voltage then it really is... causing the alternator to stay on ALL the time.. making way too much heat and burning it up... not to mention the fuel mileage lost by having a 10 horse alt on all the time.
June 1, 201312 yr I voed for the pulley as well. What good does the MIA do if the belf slip just happens to occur at just the right moment on a shitty road? None.J
June 1, 201312 yr I think you might of started another thread similar to this in the past. I posted my technique there but didn't get a response from you. I mounted an idler pulley on one of the alternator mounting bolts. After a little bit of research on the Dayco website I matched up an idler pulley that had the correct id size for the bolt and overall od and width for my belt and mounting requirements. Easy.
June 1, 201312 yr Author nothing is broken. and i can not add a pulley simply to a bolt and get away with it... its just not possible its in a odd spot and any bolts near it would never work. so... thats why i never responded it was a dead issue,. i pretty much had my mind set on the double idler i just needed the push thanks guys
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