"Neil Arlidge" <[email protected]> wrote: >After dropping a belt, in an emergency, long thing cable ties round the >water pump and crankshaft pulleys will work for an hour or so, enough to get >you somewhere safe on the tideway or out of the flow of say The Abbey River >in Limerick >http://www.tuesdaynightclub.co.uk/T07_Imag/10_07_07/Img_1176.jpg >On all plant / automotive engine marinisations the original >waterpump/alternator belt is always on the inside of, in the case of a Beta >43, three belts and is a 20 minute job to remove the bracketry and other two >belt and replace the waterpump belt, even for the experienced, with tools >and belt to hand.
I have two belts -- one for the alternator, the other for the water pump. The water pump one is inside (i.e. nearer the engine). Its belt is made up of links, which can be separated. It actually had to do this because there is no way to adjust the tension for this belt (with the links, I make the belt just big enough to pry over the pulley flanges), but it has the second advantage that it is possible to replace it without removing the alternator belt. Handy. The belt manufacturer is Brammer. However, I concur that string, cable tie, whatever is fine for the water pump in an emergency, as that belt is under very little load. Adrian Adrian Stott 07956-299966
