With the potential demise of Stans well looked after coop I remember reading that both Barbz and Rog had developed some sort of guard to attempt to stop the aux belt hitting the cam belt, did these ever reach the stage of people having them installed?

If so have they been successful? I know that when it's time for the belts to be changed I will be enquiring about getting one fitted for peace of mind

Regards

Austin

yeh i wouldn't mind one of them on the safe side

i think a few people have them, i started a thread the other week about this. . . i sent Barbz and email but have yet to have a reply. i would be very interested in one of these. . .

here is the old thread:
http://www.fiatcoupeclub.org/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Main=58402&Number=711222#Post711222

I’ve got one – not had the belts jump to try it out though thankfully. Flea also has one and when he was getting belts jump on a regular basis it worked most of the time, but one time the belt still got into the cambelt so it’s not a 100% solution.

I think Kenno was offering to get them made up a while ago, but you needed a spare aux pulley to send to him and I’m not sure if he’d still be able to sort it out.

The concept though is to have a machined collar attached to the inner edge of the pulley with the correct profile to take up the gap between pulley and cambelt cover – if you happened to have access to an engine out of a car then I’d expect you could come up with something reasonably easily and get a machine shop to make you something up.

I've got one and it's saved my cambelt once when my car threw its aux belt off at 7k rpm...

@ Matty - That was lucky Is yours from Barbz? does anybody know if Poweritalia do one yet?

Austin

do you know how much they are?

Will I get any commission for causing this rash of panic buying?

lol might get you a 20v if you do.
i am getting my cambelt changed so i want to be safe as possible

How does a Krispi Kreme doughnut for every guard sold sound?

I'd be happy with that!

I would be interested in one too. My belt managed to shred itself, but I was lucky. Next time I might not be.

If not I am pretty handy on Lathes and Milling machines so I may be able to knock something up.

Yep I was getting these sorted on Barbz's behalf. I might still be able to get them done if there's enough spare pulleys floating about.

Matty's is from Barbz as it came from my wreck.

Ross

They are certainly better than nothing although they don't always stop a belt getting in as I find out with 20 bent valves earlier this year. I now have a full shield in place which should make it impossible for anything to foul the cambelt. That said, I haven't had an aux belt go for a while so it remains untested

ok how much are they and how do in get one :-)

I would have liked to have seen that when I was over your way Leighton.

I'd be interested in something like this as I still have memories of the £1,100 fix after mine let go at the redline

i sense a goup buy coming along?

yeah but i need it before tuesday

i'll take one please!

stupid aux belt

Belt guard is £180gbp and comes as part of the Aux pulley ref an email i got from barbz when i enquired for one!

Anyone got any pics for this Cambelt gaurd/ modified aux pulley???