Fred,
While it is an excellent idea the engineering and fabrication needed to do
the conversion would be more than the $900 it currently costs for the timing
chain stuff. The chains are easy to get made, it's the tensioners and guides
and gears that aren't but I think the tensioner rubber and guides can be
redone if someone wanted to lay out the $$ to have molds made and the old
ones used as cores.
Maybe other gears can be used and modified to fit.
Just a thought,
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roadster" <roadster@texoma.net>
To: "Datsun Roadster List" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2001 10:18 AM
Subject: U20 Timing chains
> The following is my "Crazy Thought of the Month".
>
> Due to the high (and ever rising) cost of chains and sprockets, has
> anyone ever considered the feasibility of replacing them with belts?
> Replacement pulleys (for lack of a better term) and tensioners would
> have to be fabricated at a fair cost. Are these replacement items or do
> they last 'forever' in an engine designed for belts? If they need not
> be replaced with the belts, they would pay for themselves rather
> quickly. While the belts would be more difficult to change than on an
> engine that was designed for them, it certainly wouldn't be any more
> trouble that the chains and sprockets. Would a belt survive in the oil
> bath environment in which it would br placed?
>
> Just another wacky thought.....
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Fred Schroeder
> '70 2000
> SRL311-13359
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