Belt - Geared, Bissell 1986...
$6.99
Product details
Ordered as 18-3310-09, this geared belt drives the brush roll on the Bissell 1986-2 steam vacuum. Its teeth engage the drive gear directly, which is what holds brush speed steady while the machine is working wet carpet and the roll is under real load.
Belt trouble tends to announce itself in one of two ways. Either cleaning quietly gets worse, because the belt has stretched and the brush no longer turns fast enough to agitate the pile, or you catch a hot rubber smell partway through a room, which means the belt is slipping and burning against a pulley that keeps turning.
Replacement is straightforward and needs no special tools. Since the belt is the only thing standing between the motor and the agitation that does the actual cleaning, treating it as a scheduled service item rather than waiting for a failure keeps results consistent.
