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01-18-2006, 05:59 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orlando
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|  The $0 Slipping belt fix - 56 K Warning
So after crawling over a 5 foot concrete debris pile today for about 2 hours the rear belt finally decided it had enough, stretched itself out and decided to give the rear axle the rest of the day off. I read about attempts to repair it with smaller O-Rings but couldn't find the Dash #139 size anywhere. I was reluctant to try to make a tensioner part out of laziness and part because I didn't want to go to the hobby shop, where it seems my wallet always leaves sigificantly lighter than originally intended. A few cold Guiness' later it hit me. The stock O-ring should simply be Buna-N (Nitrile). Buna-N is sold in long strands so people could custom make their own sizes using an O-Ring splicer. The magic bonding agent is cyanoacrylate AKA CA/Crazy Glue. I have ZAP CA lying around... I have a hobby knife... Hmmmm. Needs me another Guiness to see where this is headed... 1 Guiness later- - Cut off 9.6mm of the stock O-Ring - Placed one drop of CA on one end - carefully aligned the pieces (difficult after the Guiness) - pressed them together - Viola!!.... New custom O-Ring I have since tested this, even using my arm to hold the truck back with all the weight on the rear tires on carpet, I could not get them to slip. Beauty of this is if it ever stretches out again, another quick adjustment is all it takes. I should have realized this earlier, since I've probably narrowed about 6 pairs of tires in my life by cutting out the center section and regluing them. Enjoy and happy wheeling. Last edited by Papewayo; 01-19-2006 at 08:00 PM. |
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01-18-2006, 06:05 PM
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| MODERATOR™   Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Ohio
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Lovely day for a Guiness!
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01-18-2006, 06:17 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orlando
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Everyday is a lovely day for a Guiness.  Helps me come up with ideas too. Hehehe. | |
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01-18-2006, 06:51 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Hardin, KY
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now make me one  my rear belt like to slip worse than a fat woman on a ice skating rink  |
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01-18-2006, 07:24 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orlando
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No need for me to make 'ya one, I've done empowered you to fix it yersef. Takes all of 3 minutes, but you will need a Guiness, you know to steady the hands for those precision cuts and all. | |
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01-18-2006, 07:37 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Hardin, KY
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where can i get the materials?
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01-18-2006, 07:38 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Hardin, KY
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wait.....cut off 9.6mm of the o ring...did u modify the stock belt or what?
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01-18-2006, 08:18 PM
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There ya go, now you're getting it. YUP! | |
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01-18-2006, 08:20 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Hardin, KY
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seems like thats a lot to take out......almost a full CM...... i would just be scared the CA would let loose and leave me with a broke belt in the rear.... |
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01-18-2006, 08:26 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orlando
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I've run it in my back yard rock garden for approx 45 minutes, no problems. I've run CA'd tires halves in Stadium truck races and never had one fail so that kinda leads me to believe this wont fail either. Tomorrow morning I'm headed back to that 5 foot concrete debris pile. If it's good enough for commercial custom O-Rings it's good enough for me. | |
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01-18-2006, 08:34 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Hardin, KY
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will just plain ol Super Glue work? theres not a LHS around here to get CA and i dont want to order it online...... o yah, how did you get exactly 9.6mm? was there a reason u went for this number? Last edited by SlammedMini469; 01-18-2006 at 08:37 PM. |
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01-18-2006, 08:43 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orlando
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Since the belt was very stretched out I was thinking about making a tensioner, I simply started pinching little bits of the belt to see how much I needed to take up. It was around ~9.6mm when measured with my caliper, so that's what I cut off. Super Glue should work also. | |
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01-18-2006, 10:15 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Sintrul Poynt
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I knew beer was proof God wants us to be happy  |
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01-19-2006, 08:40 AM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orlando
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Exactly like ol Ben Franklin said it was. | |
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01-19-2006, 09:22 AM
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After cutting and gluing my rear belt I went out this morning and headed back to the debris pile. Unfortunately they had started clearing some of it away so I had to play in a slightly smaller pile, still a good 4 - 4.5 feet though. Here are some picks of whats possible without the rear belt slipping.                     Now lets see a basically stock Clod or TXT do that. Hehehehe. Only modifications on this rig are: Small tummy tuck, shortened rear belt, cut tires. |
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01-19-2006, 09:32 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brecksville
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Where can you get the Buta-N strands from??????
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01-19-2006, 09:57 AM
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| 06 Super National Champ  Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Stark Industries Bar and Grill
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Did you bother to read the first post or did you just skim over it? All he did was cut his stock rear belt and glue it back together. |
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01-19-2006, 01:04 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brecksville
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I read it, but my problem is that i dont have my stock rear belt:?
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01-19-2006, 08:06 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Orlando
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You can get Round or square cord stock for about $0.08 - $0.36 per foot. It comes in 100 foot lengths. Cord stock is also available in: Silicone, EPDM, Viton and Neoprene and in various thicknesses | |
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01-20-2006, 08:43 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Brecksville
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awsome....thankyou!
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