I had a belt drive on the Ford V6, belt was about 6” wide;
had to buy a custom-order, set of 4 - could not buy less … set was $320
or $80 each. No idea about the actual service life but at that time people on
the “Ford list” were expecting to reach 2000 hours.
Jeff
From: Rotary motors in
aircraft [mailto:flyrotary@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Berniehb7448@wmconnect.com
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 8:20 PM
To: Rotary motors in aircraft
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: More progress, more questions....
From
what I've seen so far, ALL cog belts, doesn't matter what size or what HP
limits, have a very safety concerned operating limit of 500 hours/2 years,
whatever comes along sooner, even if they still LOOK almost brand-new. This was
stressed on all belt PSRU sites (for fixed wing or rotary wing).I've not seen
replacement belt prices because they have not been posted and I have not asked.