alternator drive belt - where to buy

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The alternator drive belt fitted to my YSB12 is modified to allow installation in a confined area, therefore it is smaller than the Yanmar standard fit. The belt installed is a MITSUBOSHI R6 REMF 1225.
Various Chandlers/Motor Factors I have been to just give me a blank look and are unable to help. Can any of the wise and wonderful advise where I may be able to buy the belt. I am on my last spare!!!!
Thanks
Neil
 
Have you tried taking it into a good motor factor? They can usually offer a replacement by measurement - I did it with mine (lucas alternator on a Yanmar engine).
 
G'day Neil,

Have a look in the phone book for Filta Wash or Gates belts. Get yourself a Gates Green stripe belt, it will outlast any other and not cost the earth.

No connection, just very long life on belts that work very hard.

Avagoodweekend......
 
You could try:-
Mountains Ltd
01342 844088
Unit H8
Hays Bridge Business Centre
Brickhouse lane
South Godstone
Surrey
RH9 8JW
This firm sells transmission equipment e.g. belts, pulleys, bearings etc
 
As suggested, go to a specialist like Lucas Services or Bearing Services Ltd, taking the old belt along to be measured. Belts are available in increases of 1 cm in total length, but I heve never managed to find out how they are actually measured!

When my alternator needed repair, I took the old belt in to Lucas to get a spare. They told me that I had the wrong profile of belt (it was a V-belt and should have been A-belt.) They could not supply the correct size, but sent me to Bearing Services, who could.
 
Fan-belts usually have their length printed on the outside of the belt and forming part of their Part Number, e.g. XXX1092 would be a length of 1092mm and so on.

Don't know if this applies to all fan-belts, but it's how I buy mine whenever I need 'em. I think the dimension applies to the measurement taken around the OUTSIDE of the belt.

No doubt someone will refute/confirm this though!
 
Free to a good home

When I bought Rowana last year, there were a couple of spare belts on board. Neither was the correct one.

One is a Mintex PWFT 1000 ant t'other is a PWFT 960

If any of them are any good to anyone, PM me your "Snail Mail" addy and I'll stick them in the post.

No Charge, just buy me a beer sometime.
 
Fenner power transmissions are a specialised firm dealing with belts. You will find them in the yellow pages and you need them or someone like them because what you want is not a routine automotive belt.

What is important is the width of the belt. Buy an auto half inch belt and use it in a 13mm pulley and it wont last any time at all. Dont ask me how I knowbut it did involve auto belts and Yanmar engines. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
 
Re: Free to a good home

There must be dozens of us with perfectly good belts that do not fit the engine. I inherited one with Wight Dawn and two with a previous boat. Added to several others from various bits of machinery and I have a collection of about eight which "might come in useful some day. Maybe we should start a "belt exchange" forum!

It is really a pain in the *rse if you carry these on board. Dangerous even. Gives you a false sense of security. Last autumn I went to change over the belt on Wight Dawn. As this involves draining the cooling system, I always keep the spare looped through in place and tied back out of the way. I removed the old one and fitted the spare then took the second spare from the locker. Something told me it did not look right so I took off the one I had just fitted and tried what was going to be the spare. It did not fit. Just as well I found out then and not when the belt in use broke.
 
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