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Originally Posted by Topspinmo
I tried heavy duty belt made by gates. It was hard to get on due to the stiff beefed up design, it had extended delay when you stopped and started back up. I didn’t like that even though it would lasted very long time, the down side IMO would be extra wear on clutch face disks IMO due to harder material. did I mention it extremely hard to get off. Nearly impossible. I thought i was going to have remove mount bolt on secondary clutch just get it off.
I buy OEM belts they last about two to three years and I’m careful with jackrabbit starts and taking off in steep grade. I also clean belt and clutch faces every 6 month or so. Even after 2 years or more on the belt starting to separate. I can feel when my belt starting to go bad, feel slight vibration during acceleration knowing it’s either needs cleaned or getting bad enough to change soon.
If you happen to be on MMP and your really old drive belt separates and falls off. Maybe you’ll be lucky if I’m traveling by? I carry extra good used belt, take about 4 mins to install.
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Two to three years on an OEM belt? I’d have 10,000-15,000 miles on the belt by then! Which I’m pretty sure the belt won’t last that long. I’m changing the drive belt at 2,500 miles, the starter/generator belt at 5,000 miles. Yes, I can feel a lil funny business with the main belt at 2,000 miles, belt looks fine, but I chalk that up to it perhaps starting to slip a bit.
For traveling distance, I’m full throttle 98% of the time. Same for starts and stops. I don’t baby the throttle. The clutches do the work so it really doesn’t matter how you throttle it.
Im used to CVT’s on high horsepower snowmobiles. Which is safe to say a much higher stressed application for a belt. Heat was their Achilles heal. And a properly maintained clutch.
As for our carts, I’d do a belt replacement by time or mileage. Mileage is a no brainer, every 2,500 miles. As for time, a lightly used cart belt should last for several years without issue. But for piece of mind, I’d keep an eye on it at 3-5 years.