Belts and components

Belts and components
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Belts and components

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Overview
The document serves as a comprehensive guide to ContiTech's power transmission products, focusing on timing belts, V-belts, and multi-V belts, along with their kits and components. It highlights the importance of high-quality materials and precise engineering for reliability and performance in automotive engines.
Timing Belts and Kits
  • Technology and Structure: Timing belts are constructed with fiber-glass tensile members for traction and stability, polyamide fabric for grip, and high-performance polymers for temperature resistance ranging from -30°C to +140°C.
  • Timing Belt Kit: Includes all necessary components for belt replacement, such as tensioning pulleys and small parts, ensuring comprehensive maintenance.
  • Timing Belt Kit + Water Pump: Recommended for engines where the timing belt drives the water pump, ensuring synchronized power transmission and reliability.
V-Belts and Multi-V Belts
  • Technology and Structure: Designed for compact spaces and high flexibility, using fiber-reinforced EPDM rubber and polyester tensile members.
  • V-Belts: Suitable for older vehicles with fewer pulleys, ensuring reduced vibrations and wear.
  • Multi-V Belts: Feature multiple ribs for greater contact area and flexibility, produced using a molding process for dimensional stability.
  • Multi-V Belt Elast: Designed for drives with fixed axial distances, eliminating the need for tensioning pulleys through self-tensioning technology.
Accessory Drive Solutions
The document emphasizes the complexity of modern accessory drives and the importance of using kits that include all necessary components for efficient assembly and reduced administrative work.
Best Practices
Instructions on fitting, storage, and replacement intervals are crucial for maintaining belt integrity and performance. The document also stresses the importance of not kinking belts to prevent damage to the fiber-glass tensile member.
Specifications
Multi-V Belts are designed for vehicles factory-fitted with elastic belts, featuring a structured back, high-quality synthetic rubber, and an elastic polyester tensile member. They are differentiated by effective length and production length, with the fitted condition length being the indicated length.
Tools and Kits
ContiTech offers complete kits that include the Multi-V Belt and necessary tools for installation, such as the UNI TOOL ELAST and ELAST TOOL F01 for specific vehicle models. These kits ensure correct fitting according to OE specifications and eliminate the need for additional tool searches.
Installation and Maintenance
Special tools are required for fitting elastic multi V-belts. Instructions on fitting, storage, and replacement intervals must be followed. The LASER TOOL is recommended for checking belt pulley alignment, and the Belt Wear Tester for assessing belt wear.
Additional Components
The Multi-V Belt Kit includes tensioning and idler pulleys, tensioning dampers, and fixing materials, all matched to specific vehicles and ensuring OE quality. The Torsional Vibration Damper is included to neutralize crankshaft vibrations, enhancing smooth operation.
Overrunning Alternator Pulley
This component helps reduce strain on the drive system by allowing the alternator to run unobstructed during engine speed changes, thus improving efficiency and reducing wear.
Tools
ContiTech provides a range of tools for belt maintenance, including the TOOL BOX for general applications and specialized kits for specific vehicle types. The BTT Hz Tension Tester and LASER TOOL are highlighted for their precision in testing and alignment.
Recommendations
Regular checks and timely replacements of components like the torsional vibration damper are advised to prevent engine issues. Proper alignment and tensioning are crucial for maintaining belt drive efficiency and longevity.
Timing Drive
  • Replace tensioning and idler pulleys when changing the belt.
  • Follow installation instructions and use the correct profile type.
  • Replace the water pump if the timing belt drives it.
  • Change the timing belt only when the engine is cool.
  • Use correct torque for screws and avoid sprays or chemicals to reduce noise.
Change Sticker
  • ContiTech provides a premium-quality foil change sticker for long-term protection against heat, dampness, and dirt.
Accessory Drive
  • Check and replace accessory belts, alternator pulleys, and dampers as needed.
  • Ensure proper alignment of pulleys and use the correct type of belt.
  • Elastic multi V-belts are self-tensioning and can be reused if undamaged.
  • Use specific tools for fitting and testing belt tension.
Replacement Intervals
  • Follow manufacturer-prescribed intervals; if not available, change belts every 120,000 km or 7 years.
Storage
  • Store belts in original packaging in a dry, cool, and dust-free environment, away from flammable substances.
  • Maximum storage period is 5 years from production date.
Technical Resources
  • Access detailed information and fitting instructions via the Product Information Center (PIC) online.
  • Order workshop posters for defect recognition and replacement intervals.
Training Sessions
  • ContiTech offers technical training sessions across Europe, focusing on belt handling, fault diagnosis, and tool usage.
  • Hands-on training includes changing timing belts on various engines.
Contact Information
  • ContiTech Antriebssysteme GmbH, Hanover, Germany.
  • Technical hotline and online resources available for support.
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Power Transmission Group Automotive Aftermarket

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Power Transmission Group Contents Page Subject Timing Belts + Kits Our timing drive solutions Timing Belts: Technology and structure The Timing Belt Timing Belt Kit Timing Belt Kit + Water Pump V-Belts, Multi-V Belts + Kits Our accessory drive solutions V-Belts and Multi-V Belts: Technology and structure The V-Belt The Multi-V Belt Multi-V Belt Elast Multi-V Belt Elast + Tools Multi-V Belt Kit Multi-V Belt + Torsional Vibration Damper Belt drive components 30 Torsional Vibration Damper 32 Overrunning Alternator Pulley Tools Tools and sets General tools Timing drive tools Accessory drive tools...

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Power Transmission Group Timing drive The premier choice: Our timing drive solutions The engine can only run smoothly and reliably if all components are fully synchronized, which is why automobile manufacturers rely on Timing Belts from ContiTech for their original equipment. We supply independent parts distributors on the basis of a simple principle: No differentiation between their products and OE parts. Our power transmission belts and components for the aftermarket are produced to the same production standards as OE components. In this way we supply workshops with the products they need while...

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Timing Belts Timing drive Timing Belts: Technology and structure Black, circular and hidden away in the engine compartment: Belts are boring. But only at first glance, because the interior of a ContiTech Timing Belt contains a lot of high-tech. Polyamide fabric Synthetic rubber, in part fiber-reinforced Fiber-glass tensile members provide excellent traction and longitudinal stability, thus ensuring that the force of even the most powerful engine is reliably transmitted. Premium-quality polyamide fabric ensures perfect grip, enabling the harmonious interplay of crankshaft, camshaft and valves....

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Timing Belts Timing drive Securely powerful: The Timing Belt Top-quality polyamide fabric and special HNBR (hydrogenated nitrile butadiene rubber) synthetic rubber make Timing Belts by ContiTech highly durable and resistant to extreme temperatures. The fiber-glass tensile member ensures optimum tensile strength. The tensile members are twisted in opposing directions (anti-clockwise/clockwise), which ensures that the belt can’t twist out of shape. The three basic profiles (trapezoidal, HTD, STD) enable synchronous power transmission. Timing Belts Enduring quality which resists wear and tear. Always...

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Timing Belts + Kits Timing drive complete: Timing Belt Kit No half measures: For maximum safety, when the timing belt is replaced all other parts of the timing drive subject to wear and tear should be replaced at the same time. This is why Timing Belt Kits from ContiTech contain all the parts required for professional belt replacement. In addition to the tensioning and idler pulleys this means - depending on the vehicle - the tensioning damper and any minor parts which may need replacing such as screws, nuts, springs and washers. This is practical and saves time because all the necessary parts...

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Timing Belts + Kits 12 Timing Belt Kit + Water Pump Everything’s included: Timing Belt Kit + Water Pump The experts know that in the case of engines in which the timing belt also drives the water pump, the pump should also be replaced when the timing belt is changed. The Timing Belt Kit + Water Pump makes this job easier, because it contains all the parts needed for the replacement – belt, water pump, pulleys and whatever small parts are required by the relevant vehicle type. In the long run a water pump can only achieve reliable performance with top-quality components. This is why Water Pumps...

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Making it easy Our accessory drive solutions The replacement of belts for the accessory drive is becoming more and more complicated. Because the modern engine contains an increasing number of components such as the fan, air-conditioning compressor and power steering all concentrated within a small space, belt drives are becoming increasingly complex. It’s therefore good if somebody relieves you of some of the work, and that’s why in our kits we provide you with all the necessary parts. Everything which mechanics need for efficient assembly is immediately at hand, ensuring fast and efficient fitting...

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16 Power transmission belts V-Belts, Multi-V Belts + Kits V-Belts and Multi-V Belts: Technology and structure The more auxiliary units need to be supplied, the greater the demands on the belts which drive them, while the available space becomes increasingly restricted. This is why in the 1990s the classical V-belt with its rigid structure increasingly came to be replaced by the compactly built and significantly more flexible multi V-belt. In the case of simple power transmission drives some automobile producers are nowadays also applying elastic multi V-belts without a tensioning pulley. However,...

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The accessory drive transmits the power of the engine to the alternator, fan, water pump, air-conditioning compressor and power steering. In drives with only two or three pulleys classical V-belts are used for this purpose, in particular with older vehicles. LONG LASTING QUALITY V-Belts from ContiTech are produced in raw-edged form. With their precisely ground edges they are an exact fit for the pulleys. This reduces vibrations and wear and tear on the engine components – while ensuring greater customer satisfaction. To ensure that everything runs smoothly with multiple pulley drives, belts of...

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Serious power in a compact space: The Multi-V Belt MINIMUM RADII Not to be neglected – multi V-belts drive all auxiliary components: Alternator, fan, water pump, air-conditioning compressor and power steering. Because of their structure featuring a number of adjacent ribs they have a greater contact area than conventional V-belts. At the same time they have the compact dimensions of a flat belt. This ensures maximum power transmission and outstanding flexibility. As a rule, ContiTech Multi-V Belts are not ground but are produced by the molding process. That ensures optimal dimensional stability,...

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