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Updated Serp System. (Pics.)
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From: Columbia Missouri
Just curious, is the serpentine belt more reliable or more durable than traditional belts. I only have an alternator, power steering pump, water pump, and crank pulleys. Could I change all of the pulleys to serpentine style, measure the loop, put a serpentine belt on, and use the alternator as the tensioner? It might even look cool. Do they make serpentine pulleys for my short water pump setup? I don't want to spend $500 for brackets just to run serpentine. I have a 96 truck engine in the garage I can raid pulleys off of.
Durango Kidd, I'm glad your getting work done, the engine looks good. You should replace one of those alternators with a supercharger, just a thought.
Durango Kidd, I'm glad your getting work done, the engine looks good. You should replace one of those alternators with a supercharger, just a thought.
Bee Jay - First you can get the full set of brackets and accessories for $250 on Ebay all the time. That's how I got mine. I got two alts, power steering, pulleys, A/C, smog, brackets, mounting hardware, belt, and a few other goodies...for $250.
I think the serp pulleys could be adapted but you'd have a hard time finding a belt that short. The serp belt is not better per say except you only have one belt to change and you can change it in about 20 seconds with a 1/2" ratchet and the new belt.
The water pump pulley will fit the snout of the short pump just fine but you'd have to make a crank pulley that was shorter of use an LT1 style dampener where the balancer IS the pulley. It'd still be hard getting them to line up.
It's worth looking into, but you'd probably waste a lot of time and effort when you could just buy a serp kit like this one, install it, and go. You have an L88 hood and I'm pretty sure it'll fit just fine.
I am now not using my A/C delete, so you could have that from me, and all you'd need is the brackets, a CS alt conversion...which is easy, a newer model power steering pump, and MAYBE some frame rail clearancing.
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Bee Jay - First you can get the full set of brackets and accessories for $250 on Ebay all the time. That's how I got mine. I got two alts, power steering, pulleys, A/C, smog, brackets, mounting hardware, belt, and a few other goodies...for $250.
I think the serp pulleys could be adapted but you'd have a hard time finding a belt that short. The serp belt is not better per say except you only have one belt to change and you can change it in about 20 seconds with a 1/2" ratchet and the new belt.
The water pump pulley will fit the snout of the short pump just fine but you'd have to make a crank pulley that was shorter of use an LT1 style dampener where the balancer IS the pulley. It'd still be hard getting them to line up.
It's worth looking into, but you'd probably waste a lot of time and effort when you could just buy a serp kit like this one, install it, and go. You have an L88 hood and I'm pretty sure it'll fit just fine.
I am now not using my A/C delete, so you could have that from me, and all you'd need is the brackets, a CS alt conversion...which is easy, a newer model power steering pump, and MAYBE some frame rail clearancing.
I think the serp pulleys could be adapted but you'd have a hard time finding a belt that short. The serp belt is not better per say except you only have one belt to change and you can change it in about 20 seconds with a 1/2" ratchet and the new belt.
The water pump pulley will fit the snout of the short pump just fine but you'd have to make a crank pulley that was shorter of use an LT1 style dampener where the balancer IS the pulley. It'd still be hard getting them to line up.
It's worth looking into, but you'd probably waste a lot of time and effort when you could just buy a serp kit like this one, install it, and go. You have an L88 hood and I'm pretty sure it'll fit just fine.
I am now not using my A/C delete, so you could have that from me, and all you'd need is the brackets, a CS alt conversion...which is easy, a newer model power steering pump, and MAYBE some frame rail clearancing.
Melting Slicks
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St. Jude Donor '03,'11
in the case of the serp if the belt brakes you only have minutes to overheating. And how else can you tell its gone????
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From: Columbia Missouri
Actually the post right before this one I indicate how I'm swapping the cases for new freshly chromed cases.