Your car's serpentine belt or drive belt is an essential part of its anatomy. The belt wraps around the crankshaft pulley and connects to various engine accessories, like the air conditioning ...

Most vehicles have a rubber belt on the front of the engine that drives accessories such as the air-conditioning compressor, power steering pump and alternator. If this accessory drive belt (also ...

Car crafting is all about adapting late-model factory pieces to our older muscle cars. The conversion has to be simple, easy to work on, and best of all-inexpensive. Our show car cousins love those ...

Few things are more frustrating than starting your mower only to find it dragging, slipping, or cutting unevenly. In many cases, a worn drive belt is the culprit. This is what transfers power from the ...

SERP for Success: Ditch your 20th century V-belt drive and opt for durability and good looks in a new serpentine belt drive system When you consider the durability of serpentine belt drive systems it ...

Despite the complexity of modern vehicles, they still use technologies that have been a part of humanity’s toolbox since The Holy Roman Empire. Pulleys are believed to have been used in ancient ...

Harley-Davidsons are special. Aside from their unique "potato-potato" exhaust note, they stand apart from most motorcycles mainly due to their single-pin crankshaft design and their belt final drives.

Unless you own a Yugo, you probably already realize that your car’s engine is a meticulously designed and engineered hunk of metal. Even so, you may not know that if one part of the engine fails, it ...