Any chance you can take a picture of how you routed that? I think i have the same layout but a pic would help a ton.
That one is 52.50 inches. That’s what the last last part of the part number is. 525 is 52.5”. So if you know how long you need you can look up your own part numbers.
Damn that's some tight clearance there! I might see if I can find one and keep running my idler. Glad to know it can be done like that.
You can also just cut your old one, route as you please, trim to length, and measure. Bummer about string is standard belts are measured by OD and not ID (except V-belts), so you have to add whatever the thickness of the belt is to just the contact radius on each pulley (PITA).
That is a much better way if you have a long old belt. Still take into account the tensioner and go an inch shorter.
Yep. I usually note the location of the stock tensioner, buy the sizes around my measurement to see which one ends up about the same, and return the others.
String worked just fine when I needed a belt for my blower setup. First belt worked awesome.
Huh. Whenever I did that, always ended up off. I was running a belt on a setup that had very little adjustment in the manual tensioner though. With a spring type tensioner, there's a little more leeway.
That is not much belt wrap around the crank pulley or the water pump. I would think that adding one or two idler pulleys would be beneficial. Could move the alternator up to where the PS pump was to get it out of the sand and have better belt routing.
