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George Haining reduces belt skip in the X-5!

Here are a few pictures sent to us from a customer in Europe who came up with a neat way to increase belt wrap and essentially reduce the amount of belt skip that occurs under acceleration without sacrificing drive train efficiency. He has added a second idler pulley that makes the belt wrap around the bottom of the drive pulley a couple more teeth.

   

Nice view of the two pulleys.

Close up top view of assembled drive train mod.
 

Close up top view of assembled drive train mod.
   
Special thanks to George Haining for sharing his idea with us all.