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Originally Posted by Nate
If that's in reference to me, I measured it next to a gates timing belt, and it was the problem with the manufactured with of the belt being too wide.
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Nope, it wasn't. My problem turned out to be the belt path's alignment...the route from the idler and back to it. I don't remember if it was the alternator (top right side of the enging) or the idler-wheel itself, but the support holding the item was cracked just enough that when higher torque was applied during acceleration or high-speed driving, the mis-alignment would occur, eventully succeeding in tearing a perfectly new belt to shreads in, literally, a hundred miles or so. My "reference" is to the path the belts takes, not the belt itself.
You have a flexible part that must drive a myriad of components...that flexible part isn't going to have a chance in hell surviving any length of reasonable time if it has to ALSO deal with axial-torqueing/mis-alignment in it's travel-sphere.
And, like I mentioned, the casting was cracked in such a way that only a thorough scanning by the technician could find it and even he said he almost dismissed the crack as a casting flash. Something must have caused him to get out a pry bar and see the actual space appear. Once we changed out the support, no more belts getting torn up/shreaded.