[Alan's Classic]

Originally Posted by 57truckguy

Alan, a friend of mine had a simular issue on his small block and just went to o'reilly's and got a 5 rib belt. Has been on there for a couple of years with no problems...

I called O'Reilly's today, and the guy said he will go in the back and check. He came up with nothing. I've been doing some googling for a 5 rib that is 96.125" long replaceing the Gates K060956. I haven't had any luck neither. I'm going to keep looking. I thought about running the engine and gently use a razor knife to cut one rib off. i see all kinds of things going wrong.

Originally Posted by protrash64

I shredded one on my 454 and it was an alignment issue. Eventually the pulleys will take care of that extra rib.

I went out tonight and took the tension off the belt and tried to get the belt to set right in the pulley. It didn't work. I don't want it too shred and beat down my inner fenders.