Drive Belt Deflection; Drive Belt Alignment - Arctic Cat Cougar Service Manual

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Drive Belt Deflection
Perform this procedure whenever a new drive
belt is installed.
1. Open and secure the hood.
2. Remove the belt guard.
3. Check that the drive belt is resting at the top
of the driven pulley (Figure 14).
4. Place a straightedge across the drive belt and
compress the belt with a ruler placed midway
between the pulleys.
5. Press the ruler down (Figure 15) until the
slack is just removed. Do not press the belt hard
enough to push the belt into the pulley groove.
6. Read the belt deflection at the bottom of the
straightedge (Figure 15).
7. The belt deflection measured in Step 6 should
be within the limits listed in Table 2.
8A. On all except some 1997 and later models,
adjust the belt deflection as follows:
a. Remove the belt and driven pulley as de-
scribed in this chapter.
b. Separate the pulley halves as described in
this chapter.
c. Change the thickness of adjust washers ( 12,
Figure 6), as necessary, to provide the cor-
rect belt deflection. The adjust washers are
located between the driven pulley sheaves.
d. Reassemble and install the driven pulley as
described in this chapter.
8B. Belt deflection of 1997 ZR 580 EFI and
some other late models is externally adjusted as
follows.
a. Squeeze the adjustment arms together until
they release from their locking pockets.
b. Tum the adjustment arms and plate as nec-
essary to provide the correct belt deflection.
c. Release the adjustment arms and make sure
they correctly latch into the locking pock-
ets. The latching pockets are located every
goo.
9. After making any adjustment, rotate the
driven pulley to relocate the belt in the pulley
grooves. Recheck adjustment.
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Drive Belt Alignment
The offset and parallelism of the drive pulley
to the driven pulley must be correctly maintained
for good performance and long belt life. It is
necessary to use the correct Arctic Cat alignment
bar for checking the alignment and parallelism.
Different alignment bars are used for various
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