Reinforced rubber drive belts allow the engine’s rotating crankshaft to drive components such as water pumps, alternators, air-conditioning compressors, power-steering pumps or superchargers.

Before today’s advanced rubber, polyurethane, and neoprene compounds, most cars featured chains for their cam drives. Chains ...

Round belts and o-ring belts are light- to heavy-duty power transmission belts. These products are also called endless drive belts or endless round belts. Round belts are solid or hollow lengths of ...

The v-belt and its complementing pulley create the most efficient belt drive known (sometimes achieving 98% transmission efficiency). V-belts were developed in the early days of automobile innovation ...