I think I know the answer to this question, but I'll ask anyways.....

My car (2000 Jeep Cherokee, 4.0L straight six) has one of them "serpentine" fan belts.......you know, the big, long, flat ones.....(one belt runs everything).

*QUESTION*.......

Belt dressing ?........... "YES" ? or "NO" ?

Does belt dressing make a belt last longer ?

Straight 6, you really are smarter than you look.

NO - your problem is that the back side has glazed, and the tooth side has rotted.

Probably not where you live. Belt dressing is sold to used car dealers so the cheap sumbeaches can screw the customer.

Good luck finding any real belt dressing in today's world, if you do find the black stick stuff, tell me where you got it.

Save the old belt, they can be shortened with alligator and make great belts for Buffalo drill press downfeeds.

Thanks Unck !

Years ago when I was in the shop, we had belt dressing that came in big bars (about 2" square), and it was kind of Brown in color........(similar to hard grease).

I stol.....I mean borrowed a hunk of it, and had it laying around in my shop for YEARS. Don't know what ever happened to it....must have $hitcanned it when I moved to Florida. :(

Bad Marko, BAD BAD Marko! That hard bar stuff is prescious in today's world. Nobody in the engine & steam world can find the composition of that stuff, so nobody can make it in the back yard. It sure worked well on flat belts though.

On the Jeep, if you have the spring loaded automatic slack adjuster, it's a walk in the park. If you have the manual screw adjuster, corrosion makes the change a beach generally, so get some PB Blaster on the adjuster before you try the change. So sayeth Joel the Guru. Hey, I even remembered I own a Jeep wagon with a snow plow on it. Joel has it at his shop. I think he absconded with the thing.

A bar of bees wax works good.

It's the screw-type adjuster Unck.........

Hey Unck....give me a break !..........That stuff was laying all around the shop in the old days ! How did I know that would be "Desired" in these days ?

I think you're right though.......we used it to dress up the big old flat leather belts coming down from the line shaft in my old shop.

I remember my Dad using it on V-belts on the cars.......(he also used a bar of soap) !!! :o

ANYWAYS....I guess the old saying holds true: "You don't know what you have until you don't have it anymore" ! :(

That there Belt dressing is for certain models of Pontiac Grand Ams. Had the water pump go out on one a few years back when out at the farm. Repaced it on site and also put on a new belt.

Took me several hours just to convince myself you really had to remove a motor mount to get the belt on! :(

Seems all one can find nowadays is spray on stuff. Anyone try rosin like the guys who throw balls for large sums of money use?

Egon :D

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.....What 'da Hell was THAT all about ? :blink:

Just another volunteer to be a practice dummy at embalming school. Aparently there is some kind of new slimbucket technique in use to defest the automatics that preclude the scumbags from infesting boards with their "spam".
This a$$clown has been registered for a couple weeks with no posts or activity, now we get his wonderful offers.

Caleb needs to make some mods around here to clean house when this type of thing happens.

Ignore em - den dey's go away's to play somewhere's else. :D

Ain't no fun when nobody pays attention. :D

Egon, it ain't even manned... That's some computer generating all the logins, names, and posts based on a single application designed to spam forums. I even wonder how much the operator knows of what forums their machine is active on.

Cleaning up would be in everyone's best interest.

Ah So said the old fellow who lives in a times long since gone. :D

I always wear a belt with a dress,got a bit of a tummy,just remember black goes with everything B) now, if you wana talk senceible shoes.............

You talked to the same gypsy huh? Sensible shoes... :D

JT, Howd you larn ta spill go good? Running shoes or break shoes? :P

That Franz is a smart feller,didn't know he 's a gypsy. :D

It's actually a joke reference to the David Lee Roth song. ;)