2013 New Belt Tension

[Magdave]

Was browsing my shop manual cd and found this in the bulletins section and did not know that the 2013 has a different belt tension than earlier model more than twice as much :sour:

 

[Orange monster]

Wow that's tight! I guess the upgraded the drive shaft and other parts to allow this higher tension. I know they lowered the tension on previous years due to some issues with parts in the driveshaft failing.

 

[johnwinslow]

Wow that's tight! I guess the upgraded the drive shaft and other parts to allow this higher tension. I know they lowered the tension on previous years due to some issues with parts in the driveshaft failing.

So if you have bearing or drive shaft or belt failure and the tension was set wrong by your service dept. you would have a case for in accurate service procedures? I guess from now on if you have your machine serviced it should state on your bill what the belt tension was set at, what the tire pressure actually is, and other statements that now say set to factory specs. disconcerting to say the least.

 

[BajaRon]

Sounds like they are going back towards the original, higher tension. This will probably reduce belt vibration that many complain about on the pre-2013 models. They must have beefed up the output shaft and rear axle bearings quite a bit to accomplish this.

Other than possible belt vibration reduction I don't see any advantage since I've never heard of any belts jumping teeth at the lower setting.

 

[jerpinoy]

That's a lot of tension but if the spec calls for it. I'd rather have a belt tensioner.

 

[DrewNJ]

I'll keep my lower tension belt slapping once in awhile...haha


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