Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
So I swapped out the junky gates belt with a ultimax; however I lost about 250
Rpms.. 8100 is most I can get and I was about 8350 before.. what can I adjust or change to get the rpms higher?
Drive to the manufacturer tell them that the belt is junky and demand a refund.
Back to a junky Gates belt
Belt was already refunded, has nothing to do with needing weights or whatever is needed to gain rpms.
What is needed here to gain rpm and not have belt issues is knowledge. which has been explained to you several times by several people. what you do with that knowledge is up to you.
I believe you miss understood my sarcasm
Yep... pull weight or make primary spring firmer on finishing-force.
Did you re set your deflection when you changed belt... and re check it after running?
.
I am guessing that with the ultimax you had to tighten up your secondary substantially (tried one before) in order to get the deflection right. Provided the belt is the same width (?) this means it is a little longer and will result in what I like to call long belt syndrome. You may need to drop your primary weight a couple grams and possibly run a couple degree shallower helix than what you are presently running in an effort to get things back on track. Instead of jumping through all these re-clutching hoops why not just run the stock belt or the proper C Gates belt. I have three years of riding on the C Gates belt (approx. 6,000 miles) and get zero belt fade and outstanding power delivery. I do have to scuff up my sheave faces a little more often than normal (very hard compound) in an effort to keep things on track, but other than that I have no complaints. The stock 1183 works quite well but heat fade in springtime 50 degree weather is a problem. I just came off of a two day ride in the Rubies in big snow and possibly 55 degree air temps, made some nasty nasty long climbs and the carbon gates worked flawlessly, couldn't have been happier, very possibly the most fun I've had all season. Once you get your offset right they're awesome.
Sooo intelligent you are. Why would anyone bother to ask questions with someone as smart as you around?
They run gates because they are cheapasses. The belts last because the ride like possies. The sleds are trailer queens no doubt. I mean, even the snowblower is waxed and polished ffs. There's no way this crew hits anything hard except for Mcdonalds.Explain me this. Every sled in this picture runs Gates belts. 5 are turbos. The orange one in front, (stock) gets rode so hard it goes through motors faster than belts. The others get rode just as hard. They all run better than average. If Gates is junk, why does everyone of these guys choose Gates. Why do the belts on their sleds last and yours doesn't. Oh by the way, these guys are all performance junkies, and test everything under the sun. EVERYTHING
Serious question.