Sorry to sound a bit dumb I have read all thru this and your ac belt I assume is air-conditioning are you in a state that needs the air-conditioning or does that help keep the engine cool, I am not familiar how that works in a van or rv
It's no different from trucks. V belt setups have 3 belts linking the crankshaft and water pump/fan: alternator, power steering, air conditioning. I think alternator gets 2 belts from cs/wp if there's no ac. So in theory it helps keep the engine cool. But not if i can't get the belt to tension properly, which I can't seem to do.
IIRC the A/C doesn't work right now. I know that he lives full time in the RV and usually goes north in the summertime and south in the winter.
Correct.
I still end up seeing some hotter temps (90-95) no matter where I go, but I don't purposely stay anywhere its 100+ for several months.
There is zero pressure in the ac system. I need a new blower motor too it seems, since it blows the glass fuse in a weird way (at the end, not the middle) and only randomly. So i don't have vent/heat either. Well, I can get a tiny amount of vent/heat without the blower. I just slide the temp from cold to hot. I can feel the difference if its a warm day and i left it on hot, or a cold day and it's set to cold.
I bought an $8 "truck fan" at Atwood last year and mounted it up near the rear view mirror, so I do have that to help keep me cooler. The doghouse cover provides radiant heat, no matter the season.
While the cheap $8 fuel pump I put on the generator lasted (not very long, hours wise), I was capable of running the roof ac while driving or when parkrd. I did that a few times last year.