Purchased a old kart that had seen better days put new harbor freight motor on it and ordered a torque converter unit from eBay both driver driven and belt. It’s a 20 series setup with a symmetrical belt and the driven is mounted on the onboard side of the jack shaft. Now this started out pretty good for my daughter she’s 13 well her older sister wanted to ride as well. Done goof for a bit but now the driver opens up so much the belt drops down to the rivits and locks up sometime you can just push it back always and it will walk out but most of the time it’s a prying event. The belt is not to tight and at idle it slips fine. Any clues that I can look at thanks
Need help driven locking belt
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"onboard" is a bit of a miswording..
can be both
INboard (correct mounting for a series 20) or
OUTboard (incorrect for a series 20 the ONLY way for a series 30)
And it's the cam that's important not the side of the jackshaft to determin if it's inboard or outboard.
Now from what happened and without pics (we REALLY need them in your case to be sure)
I can only guess.. so here I guess (uhhm.. go)
You mounted the driven indeed incorrectly (outboard) and while it worked as long as it lasted,
it worn the spring out since that was wound to be run in the opposite direction.
the worn out spring then finally gave up and what you left with is a wide open driven unit.
Sooo just a guess.. but without pics (of the driven mounted! and a close up of the spring/cam portion) that's all I can do for now.
'sid
can be both
INboard (correct mounting for a series 20) or
OUTboard (incorrect for a series 20 the ONLY way for a series 30)
And it's the cam that's important not the side of the jackshaft to determin if it's inboard or outboard.
Now from what happened and without pics (we REALLY need them in your case to be sure)
I can only guess.. so here I guess (uhhm.. go)
You mounted the driven indeed incorrectly (outboard) and while it worked as long as it lasted,
it worn the spring out since that was wound to be run in the opposite direction.
the worn out spring then finally gave up and what you left with is a wide open driven unit.
Sooo just a guess.. but without pics (of the driven mounted! and a close up of the spring/cam portion) that's all I can do for now.
'sid
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