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Duanesburg N.Y. | Just wanted to drop a quick note on fixing the drive belt chirping that some may have. If you have set the belt tension and allignment to specs and cleaned the belt and done every thing that you can think of and the belt still chirps heres the fix to all fixes that costs about 25 cents to do
If you have a wife or girl friend, and who doesn't, and possiably she has a a collection of candles yeah like what female doesn't have a collection of candles go and snag one from her. Today I used bayberry lavender (yuck)
Take the candle and melt some of it down in a old cat food can (Lick the can clean first) with a torch heat it up like liquid and get a acid brush from the hard ware store for 15 cents or an old shit artist paint brush. Raise up the bike and apply the liquid wax to the cogs of the belt. It will go on like water and in seconds will start getting chalky and harden up. Do the entire belt with the wax and then put it away for if there is a next time and take the bike for a ride. The extra wax just gets pushed out and falls away.
Your reading this like yeah right this will work and I'm here to tell you this works. I stumbled across this a few years ago with my flh cop bike. I had noticed at work when I would be installing new cam timing belts on cars the new belts were kinds waxy feeling which made them feel softer. My flh was chirping away and to put a belt on a harley is a huge pain in the ass so I came up with this thought and it worked great. That day i used artic frost, dont ask me why I remember the name but it worked.
Just my helpfull tip for the day to keep coin in your pockets
Eric
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Cruiser
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Cary, NC | Thanks for the suggestion. |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | A good suggestion. Keep the belt at the newer specs, no dressing, no chirp. |
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Iron Butt
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Mt. Vernon, WASH. | Along the line as the old timey mechanics trick of quieting a noisy fan belt with a bar of soap back when you didn't need a white lab coat and a degree in computers to tune up a car. |
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Rear belt chirping fix