wtf! anyone find a fix for the belt jumping off?

[dmaxvaz]

Well, I got the tune figured out and then on my home from work (getting on it), the belt flew off on the hwy about 5 miles from home. I made it home, but this belt thing is really pissing me off. Anybody find a permanent solution yet? It has a brand new tensioner, idler pulleys ect. It usually tears a rib off the belt when put on within a week.

 

[Dirtymaxx03]

my belt will start working its way off the tensioner and it seems like it only does it if i get on it alot. new tensioner and new idlers. its freaking annoying

 

[duramaxdiesel]

I hear of this problem very often. I'm curious to know if there is a fix too.

Nick

 

[Dirtymaxx03]

is it a common thing for higher hp trucks?

 

[McRat]

I had problems with Casper at one point, but not anymore. Pulley misalign.

With any dual fueler setup, you need to manually get the pulleys into the alignment.

But on all cars and trucks, belts jump for 3 reasons:

Lack of tension (includes old belts, bad tensioner)

Pulley out of alignment. Adjust brackets to align.

Pulley is bent.

 

[TOMAN]

Has anyone ran the new GM tensioner,it looks a lot bigger ? and replaced the old one for some reason

 

[DIESELMAFIAPER.LB7]

how bout getting rid of the god damn belt squeak around 1500-1700 rpm ive put new tensnors idlers belts alt ect ect still wont ****ing go away only thing i notice is one idler doesnt seem right when it spins ive tried spacing it out but nothing changed

 

[Dirtymaxx03]

no? but i might try it out. didnt know there was a better gm out there....

 

[Jscherbs]

damn that sucks, he replaced his tensioner with the same one i did and mine works fine.

how about manually adjusting the pully brackets? somethign allignmentwise seems out of wack.

 

[Righteyeblind]

I had the same issue last year. All of my idler pulleys were wore out to the point where they wiggle back and forth pretty bad. I replaced them and see what it will do now.

 

[rulonjj]

I had this problem. It ended up being my tensioner pulley. When the belt was loose it looked straight. After I put the belt back on it looked good but after running for a few minutes it would twist out of alignment about an 1/8" and start chewing ribs of the belt. A new pulley fixed it.

 

[Micheal Tomac]

I had this problem until I routed the belt over the tensioner. Do you have the PPE dual fueler setup or ATS?

 

[TOMAN]

I had this problem until I routed the belt over the tensioner. Do you have the PPE dual fueler setup or ATS?

No he has a stock setup,your truck had the same thing when it was stock to ? with the big tunes back in the days of old

 

[dmaxvaz]

Someone please make solid tensioner with a bolt! Kind of like the ones you can get for ls engines

 

[Micheal Tomac]

You should be able to run the belt over the tensioner like I did even though you don't have the 2nd cp3. I did have to get rid of one of the small pulleys below the alternator. Here's some pics of my setup.

 

[dmaxvaz]

You should be able to run the belt over the tensioner like I did even though you don't have the 2nd cp3. I did have to get rid of one of the small pulleys below the alternator. Here's some pics of my setup.

Thank you, I will try that, and see what happens

 

[dmaxvaz]

You should be able to run the belt over the tensioner like I did even though you don't have the 2nd cp3. I did have to get rid of one of the small pulleys below the alternator. Here's some pics of my setup.

I tried it, and the belt is too long

 

[Micheal Tomac]

get a shorter belt

 

[Bryce418]

One of the guys I work with was struggling with belt issues on his truck. We ended up replacing the tensioner and adding an extra idler between the crank and tensioner. He hasn't lost a belt since and prior to that it would cut the belt down to about half width the first time he spun it to anything over 3200ish.