PeterJones
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Hi,
The drive belt on my Cheetah broke the other day and I got to work with the spare I had and it became apparent it was no easy job. So I checked the forum for advice and found quite a bit - all pretty much saying it was easy. It seemed to me that most of the helpful post were written assuming some prior knowledge (which I didn't have). So, if I ever have to replace the belt again this will be the steps I would take.
The first time replacing the belt took me 4 hours but I reckon I could do it within 30 minutes the next time.
Cheers, Peter
The drive belt on my Cheetah broke the other day and I got to work with the spare I had and it became apparent it was no easy job. So I checked the forum for advice and found quite a bit - all pretty much saying it was easy. It seemed to me that most of the helpful post were written assuming some prior knowledge (which I didn't have). So, if I ever have to replace the belt again this will be the steps I would take.
- Remove the rear wheels.
- Remove the covers over the drive pulleys. Just in front of the battery both left and right side.
- Release the tension on the Idler Arm Assembly (Part No 462492). I did this with 1/2" breaker bar into the square hole.
- Put something in the slot where the Idler Arm moves back to prevent to moving forward once the breaker bar pressure is removed. In my case a piece of wood.
- Remove the blade drive belt from the clutch. This is needed because the drive pulley from the transmisson is above this belt (just below the engine).
- Put the replacement belt into the drive pulley and then start threading it forward so it can be threaded through the pulleys below the two fans exposed when the two covers were removed.
- I found threading the belts to be finiky but not too hard. The rubber fan blades certainly helped.
- Once the belt was in place I could easly turn the belt by hand and could see the fan blades turning.
- Replace the two covers over the fan blades.
- Put the cutter belt back into place.
- Replace the wheels and all is done.
The first time replacing the belt took me 4 hours but I reckon I could do it within 30 minutes the next time.
Cheers, Peter