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02-06-2023, 03:56 PM | #43 |
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Well a chain is NOT a maintenance free item...they just happen to have a lifespan that is like double or triple that of a belt....
You just dont have to change them out nearly as often. heck you may never get a chance to change it out before its supposely gonna go bad on you. With a belt you're likely seeing at least one change in the same interval. Both are obviously subject to premature failure due to things like shoddy construction, faulty construction, crap materials, etc. |
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All Porsche 944 models: New timing belt at 30K, adjust at 15K. Big trouble if you don't. Not as bad on other cars, but undesirable com[pared to chains. I've been told that the Gates Rubber Company has a lot of pull with car manufacturers.
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They used to have a lot of pull in the synchronous belt industry, in the last 5-7 years a lot of other companies have caught and some have surpassed them. We use synchronous belts as a primary drive in the majority of our equipment and go through thousands a year. For a while I was testing 5-6 different belts a year. We ran Gates exclusively for 15+ years, not anymore. They are maybe 3rd, 4th best on the market out of the dozen or so I have tested. Gates also has a lot of government contracts that take priority, so the last few years they really pissed off a lot of OEM's. I switched two years ago, haven't looked back.
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