No belt diagram anywhere

[MikeBeggy]

I was checking my 05 today for about a 300 mile trip home and noticed that the belt had 50% shredded. I have 44k miles so not a total surprise. I went to my spares and grabbed the extra belt feeling pretty good about being prepared for this failure. Guess what, no sticker on the body near the radiator showing how the belt runs over the 8 pulleys on the common rail Cummins, nothing in the owners manual or any of the other half dozen manuals that came with the new truck. The routing is not the same as my last couple of Cummins. Anyway,after an hour of trying different combinations I got a hold of my son who looked up belt routing on his computer and described the arrangement on my cell phone. So, for those of you who are prepared for one of those fairly insignificant going to happen failures, see how many ways a 10 foot long piece of rubber can go around 8 pulleys when its hot and you are not near any trained or even humans help for a most simple piece of info. I still can't believe Dodge could be so irrespnsible to it's customers as to not provide this basic diagram.

 

[klenger]

The dealer should be able to get the placard for you under warranty.

 

[Matt400]

Kinda hard to see but the belt is there on this one:

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Just in case someone does a "belt diagram" search, here is another:

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[nickleinonen]

here is a picture of the belt routing diagram sticker under my hood...

 

[Matt400]

Thats cool, my 05 don't have that.

 

[JFaulkner]

Thats cool, my 05 don't have that.

Neither does mine. My belt was installed with one rib off from the factory and started squeaking at 500mi when it finally wore through. The dealer had to look at a new truck on the lot to fix it.

 

[swexlin]

noticed that the belt had 50% shredded. I have 44k miles so not a total surprise.

Modern belts should last much longer than 44,000 miles. I, and several others on here and on DTR have had "belt shredding" issues (my original one went at only 5400 miles).



I would have a dealer check out your tensioner, etc. And, there is no room for installation error on that AC pulley.



I check my belt once a week.

 

[JVolpe]

I bought a spare early on and realized that mine had no belt routeing diagram either. I printed one out of the manual and put it in the owners manual in the console.

 

[MikeBeggy]

Thanx for the replys..... the pict Matt400 sent sounds like the one my son found while I was in the boondocks of New Mexico. Anyway, my spare is a lietime gold series belt that I bought as a spare when the truck had 3k miles or so. I wanted to save the original belt as the spare and install the new one since I have been down the road of having bought a new 'spare' part and finding it didn't fit when I needed it (maybe a year or two later). When I changed it the first time, I looked carefully at where it ran and it wasn't partially shredded and wrapped around various places. I guess in my hurry to get going I didn't memorize how it was routed before pulling it out. Anyway, on my last 2 Cummins there was a sticker to show how the belt ran so I just assumed I would have it in the manual or somewhere. Oh well, it turned a 5 minute situation into a rather frustrating start of a nice day.

 

[crabman]

You have to look at it on the bright side!!! DC saved some money & charged all of us more!! :{



crabman

 

[Rampant]

If any of you guys need access to the full tear down manuals for the trucks you can find them online. I have copies of 2003-2006 in adobe files around 80 meg each. They typically have all the pics and are the ones the dealers use now.

 

[nickleinonen]

i took a look at the sticker under my hood, and it looks like there is a part number on it. i am not 100% sure it is a part number, but if someone can run the number "55055956AC" and see what it comes up as. . if it is a part number, it covers the 8. 0 v10 and the 5. 9 diesel and some misc. airconditioning warning/capacity/charge amount & oil part number. .

 

[Rampant]

I forgot to say where to get the file. Go over to the hemitruckclub site and lok around. The manual covers all the engines so it will work, and they host it for free so all it takes is some time and a fast connection speed.

 

[sag2]

55055956AC is a good part number for a label that is for 2003 and 2004. It is $2. 25 retail.

Same thing happened to a co workers friend. He had a new 300 at Truckee over 4th of July and it threw the belt on the afternoon of the 3rd. It was kind of funny when he called me and said the power steering suddenly quit but it was full of fluid. I went through a couple of things it could be when he said "and it overheated when we drove it home". I told him the belt came off, and if he was lucky it was still hanging there. Well it was but they had no tools so I talked them into towing it to a gas station in Truckee because if they towed it to Reno to the dealer they would be out of the car for at least two days because of the holiday. They called back and said the gas station had the car but refused to install the belt because of no routing label. They didn't want to be responsible if they installed it wrong and something happened (water pump spinning backward). I faxed them a page from the service manual and they were on their way in a couple of minutes.

So DC saved a buck a car by getting rid of the label, and from an economic standpoint only, it was a good decision. Too bad there is no direct measure of customer satisfaction and convenience in $$$$.

 

[Matt400]

55055956AC is a good part number for a label that is for 2003 and 2004. It is $2. 25 retail.

Thanks for the info, small investment for 05+ DIY owners carrying a spare belt.