V-belts were the standard for decades, but serpentine belts have replaced them in today's cars. There are several reasons ...

Drive belts sit at the center of your engine’s daily workload, and the material slowly pays the price. As miles add up, heat, ...

Timing-belt drives transmit torque and motion from a driving to a driven pulley or force to a linear actuator. They may also convey a load placed on the belt surface. A drive under load develops a ...

Despite the complexity of modern vehicles, they still use technologies that have been a part of humanity’s toolbox since The Holy Roman Empire. Pulleys are believed to have been used in ancient ...

Despite doing so much, most of us forget the serpentine belt even exists — let alone that its tension matters. But it does. A lot. Too tight and it'll grind bearings to dust. Too loose and you're ...

I have a problem with the belt on my '89 six-cylinder Jeep Cherokee. It was fine, but then the serpentine belt began to shred. I replaced it, and the new one began to shred, too. I noticed that the ...

We all know that success in racing requires paying attention to the details. Too often, it's the little things that throw a monkey wrench into what would have otherwise been a successful night of ...

Productivity is a shared goal in industrial applications, involving designers, component makers, and end users. Everyone plays a role. In this report, the editors of Motion System Design polled belt ...

Belt-driven superchargers are a great way to make power, but they require a lot of horsepower to turn—sometimes hundreds of horsepower! That's asking a lot from a lowly serpentine belt originally ...