Christopher
Moderator
With all the gear boxes out there it seems easy to just mount a pump to a gear box and mount the gea box to the engine and be done with it.
I am amazed that I have not seen any vendors out there selling a belt drive kit for those people out there that want to run belts and pulleys.
The biggest problem is drilling the holes for the engine and the pump brackets and making sure that everything is aligned up and then tightening the belts.
I have seen some aftermarket belt tensioners but not sure if they would work.
What would be nice is a paper, plastic or metal template to drill the holes so that everything should line up and a belt tensioner or a slide for the engine that you just drill holes onto the pump/engine base and have it rigged to where you just turn the bolt (like some skids have welded onto the base) and then tighten the bolts on the engine or pump and be done with it.
I am sure that vendors out there have templates made already for making the pump bases for building them but the other issue here is tightening the belts.
I don't think that a sliding device would be that hard to make and then have a company mass-produce them but then I am not on that side of the industry.
On my Hotsy there are 2 bolts that you adjust to tighten the belts, just like on other rigs out there that are mass produced.
I agree that the gear boxes are a good idea but it would also be nice to have an option for belts/pulleys and maybe even another larger template for adding a generator so when people want to make their own rigs or if the pump bases rust out but the components are still in working condition, they could just order this template, base and put it together and be up and running again.
Not sure if vendors out there have ever been asked for something like this and it might worry some about not selling as many skid units or pre-built rigs but there will always be guys out there that don't have the skills or time or want to build the units but on the other hand there are a lot of guys out there building their businesses how they want with the gear boxes and only have so much room on the trailers and trucks or want to custom build rigs for their certain applications.
I have wondered about this for a few years now and have not seen anything out there yet like what I described.
What do you guys think?
Thanks.
I am amazed that I have not seen any vendors out there selling a belt drive kit for those people out there that want to run belts and pulleys.
The biggest problem is drilling the holes for the engine and the pump brackets and making sure that everything is aligned up and then tightening the belts.
I have seen some aftermarket belt tensioners but not sure if they would work.
What would be nice is a paper, plastic or metal template to drill the holes so that everything should line up and a belt tensioner or a slide for the engine that you just drill holes onto the pump/engine base and have it rigged to where you just turn the bolt (like some skids have welded onto the base) and then tighten the bolts on the engine or pump and be done with it.
I am sure that vendors out there have templates made already for making the pump bases for building them but the other issue here is tightening the belts.
I don't think that a sliding device would be that hard to make and then have a company mass-produce them but then I am not on that side of the industry.
On my Hotsy there are 2 bolts that you adjust to tighten the belts, just like on other rigs out there that are mass produced.
I agree that the gear boxes are a good idea but it would also be nice to have an option for belts/pulleys and maybe even another larger template for adding a generator so when people want to make their own rigs or if the pump bases rust out but the components are still in working condition, they could just order this template, base and put it together and be up and running again.
Not sure if vendors out there have ever been asked for something like this and it might worry some about not selling as many skid units or pre-built rigs but there will always be guys out there that don't have the skills or time or want to build the units but on the other hand there are a lot of guys out there building their businesses how they want with the gear boxes and only have so much room on the trailers and trucks or want to custom build rigs for their certain applications.
I have wondered about this for a few years now and have not seen anything out there yet like what I described.
What do you guys think?
Thanks.