cog belt tensioner

[J&L Snowhawk]

Just a thought but to me the tensioner pulley on the cog belt is backwards. Every thing I have built or worked on puts tension on the belts slack side and pulls it around the pulleys farther so they have more contact. This is not the case with the snowhawks design. I am thinking about reworking my belt tensioner to this style. Any thoughts about this. PLEASE SHARE

 

[snowhawkaddict]

Ok

Take a look and a comparison, your 07.5 144" 800 should have the same final gear ratio 28 top and 56 bottom sprockets with third tensioner sprocket as your friends 600 Outlaw 121/136". If not updated will have 30 top, 56 bottom, tensioner sprocket, and forth idle pulley enclosed in an outer adjuster.

The trail 136 will have a 32 top, 56 bottom, tensioner sprocket and forth idle pulley enclosed in an outer adjuster.

Mountain or any other conditions in my opinion should be the lower gearing, less stress on the drive system, frame can crack near the tensioner.

The enclosed outer adjuster was an update in late 07 when belts began to walk off the pulleys when they would flex, I think this part would be a good reinforcement for earlier models.

Nobody needs to high side a Hawk at over eighty MPH!

http://www.michigan-snowhawk.com/files/9-_Secondary_transmission_system_600HO_2006.pdf

http://www.michigan-snowhawk.com/files/9-_SECONDARY_TRANSMISSION_SYSTEM_800HO_2007.pdf

Notice the wide TLS Carlisle belt can be twisted backwards.

The narrow Gates Pollychain belt used on the 503F can never be, even the box label states to store it in the box expanded.