OT when did everyone switch from chains to belts and why?
Let me know the history! when you find out how all the lemmings sorta adopted it at once.
Recently dropped-in on such a discussion .. and the consequences of a broken Kevlar belt.
Belt's quieter. It's quite cheaper, too with the drive pulleys and such figured in. I think both factors were loved by management and PR.
(Note that some motorcycles, even a big Hog or two - have used belts for rear drive)
Where it bites you in ass - is every 90K-100K miles OR.. [and some forget this to their peril] every 6-8 years, depending on how lucky you feel and how much thrashing you've done.
Pisses me off.. my Saab had fussless chain; self-tensioning, checked - never needed changing. Newer Plutocrat-5 has the idgit belt.. BUT - it had just been changed when I bought it - I won't have to change it, so WTF.
Note too re belts - by the time you Need one, you are apt to have had to do the same labor anyway - to change the fucking water pump, and maybe a couple cam, crank oil seals on general principles. So it isn't an easy call.
bloody infernal machines..
