The thing is, it was a real struggle back there to write alternator
belt and not fan belt and even as I wrote
alternator belt I was thinking fan
belt.
This is despite the fact that, by my best guess, it’s 15ish
years since I last changed a fan belt – when I last had a mini on the road. Since
then I have removed, replaced or adjusted power steering pump belts, alternator
belts, an air-con pump belt and now raw water pump belts. I even changed the
cam belt on a dual overhead camshaft engine (I can honestly say that everything
was crossed when I started that
engine and I was genuinely surprised when it didn’t go bang.)
I now care for two engines with four accessory belts between
them and no fans at all.
Did you spot that there – their real name is accessory belts in the general and
whatever they spin in the specific case.
They’re still fan belts to me though, and probably always
will be.
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