From: kuhrick (kuhrick@comcast.net)
Date: Mon Apr 19 2004 - 10:58:23 PDT
looking in a ww granger catalog
that say all belts that have same part #########
is matched sets
i would think you would have to buy tham at same time
from same lot ####
in other word's don't bet on a match from a new and a new belt from
you wall that was there 2-3-4 years
ken m886
At 12:47 PM 4/19/2004, Recovry4x4@aol.com wrote:
>Greetings everybody! Yesterday while slaving my M1009 with the M275A2
>tractor I noticed the belts squealing anytime there was a significant amp
>draw. The
>belts were a bit loose so I tightened them up and went for it. No problems
>slaving at all. Later in the evening I went to the grocery store (in the
>M275A2)
>to get sodas. On the way down the road at about 55 MPH she pitched a belt.
>In the process screwed up the other alt belt and the compressor belt. Also
>put
>a hole in the radiator. On the way back home the second alt belt also went
>away. So now I'm faced with radiator repair and belt replacement. This
>morning
>I went to the auto parts store armed with NAPA numbers from Mark Blairs
>website. The parts store carries Goodyear belts which I like. Parts dude
>has no
>problem generating a number for the compressor belt but can't find a
>crossreference for the alt belts. The NAPA number is 25-9746 and I
>presume this is a
>matched set. No problem, off to NAPA. The NAPA parts guy says that the
>number
>is no good and he cant help me. Crap!!! I have no belts to work with now.
>Off I go to Ft Lauderdale to a buddys place. An hour later I arrive. He
>has a
>couple of belts right there on the bench. Real surplus stuff off of a truck.
>Woohoo, there's a Dayco number on this. Down the street to NAPA I go. The
>parts woman (?) cross references it and says no problem. I remind her that I
>need a matched set. Seconds later she returns with 2 belts. Not a
>matched set
>at all. I tell her that I really want a matched set. She says "They are a
>matched set, I checked them". The numbers on these belts was 25-9740. I
>pass on
>these since I now have their number. I take my buddies belt back and head up
>the highway to a parts store near my house. Parts store guy looks at the
>NAPA
>number and says he can't cross reference it either. Dang, I can't win. I go
>back to the truck to get the Dayco number that I didn't write down. What
>a fool
>I've been so far. Now I'm going back home, a compressor belt in one hand and
>nothing in the other. As I'm going down my street I remember that I have kept
>a used set of belts around just in case I have a belt failure. Hope yet! I
>open the garage door and the belts are hanging just where I left them 3 year
>ago. I pull them down and check them out. The compressor belt, of which I
>already have has numbers all over it. The alt belts do not. Either way I
>now have
>a physical belt to take to the parts house and interchange. By the end of
>the
>day I'll have Goodyear numbers available for all. My questions now. Are
>matched sets still sold and how important are they? What else have others
>done for
>belts? Better believe that once I have the right numbers in hand, I'll have
>several sets here on hand just in case!
>Kenny
>
>PS, the 6.2 in the M1009 is still junk. Looking for a cheap used running 6.2
>in the SE. I might have some bartering stock laying around.
>
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