More timing belt stuff T201RB

Gates

Do a timing belt for the 308 2v.........Gates part# is TO 40, belt spec. Neo101x25.4T

Don't know if they last any longer than other belts....i.e. Dayco or Pireli Isoran as have never used them!

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Just go with THE KNOWN quantity (Unless you want to, and are well heeled enough, to run some potentially dangerous R&D for us).

You want the ones with the "LiL Horsey" (Printed: "Ferrari") on them too.



Daniel sells them.

 

Don't rack your brain on this one. Just buy the belts from one of the "usual suspects", like Ricambi America or Partsource or GT Car Parts, etc. They all carry the correct belts, and turn over their inventory enough that you will be getting fresh belts. Plus, you will be sure to be getting the correct belts. No matter who you get them from, you won't save a huge amount of money by sourcing them yourself.

And while you are at it, take a serious look at the tensioners by Hill Engineering that Ricambi sells. They are reasonably priced and have a one-piece bearing in them, rather than the exploding two-piece SKF bearings that can make you nuts. We installed them on a friend's 308, and they seem to be a very high quality product. Definitely going to them next belt change on my 328!

 

I'll buy all the exploding 2 piece SKF's you can find.

 

I understand that they made a change and that the new ones are very good. Please comment. Thx

 

The new ones are junk. The old ones were terrific.


I am serious. I will buy NOS SKF's.

 

Rifledriver


I've got a box full of SKF's I had a contact at SKF Australia import for me....how do you tell the difference between the old and new ones??

Got more than what I need,so may want to sell some.


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Post a photo.

 

to answer your question here, the T201 RB belt is for the new adjustable pulley design. the OEM pulley has a trapezoidal tooth profile while the T201 gates belt is a GT2 and looks like a half circle, they are not interchangeable.

 

I have been looking WORLD-WIDE as I have "a Friend of a Friend" a ways up and inside SKF Schweinfurt.


So far, NO Luck. BUT I am SURE there is a warehouse out there SOMEWHERE .... FULL of them.

 

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