Hoover EmPower / Fold Away ...
$6.99
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Hoover catalogs part 40201190 as a two pack of its 38528040 agitator belt, a flat belt for the Elite and Legacy upright range. Hoover names the EmPower, Fold Away, Fusion, Spirit, Sprint, Hoover Bagless, Elite, Caddy Vac, Soft and Light, Soft Guard and Breathe Easy models against it, along with other uprights in the same family.
A flat belt fails by stretching rather than by snapping, which is why the first sign is almost never a loud one. The brush roll turns slower relative to the motor driving it, carpet pickup drops off, and the machine still sounds normal while it does less work. A burning rubber smell arrives later, once the belt is slipping on the drive pulley outright, and by then it is well past due.
Because the loss is gradual, the practical approach is to keep the second belt from the pack on hand and change on a schedule rather than waiting on a symptom. Turning the brush roll by hand with the machine unplugged tells you a good deal: a belt that has stretched feels slack and lets the roll turn with almost no resistance from the motor pulley.
Hoover has used more than one belt across its wider upright range, so check your model against the list above before ordering rather than matching on appearance. A belt that is close but not correct either sits slack from the first day or runs hot enough to shorten its own life.
- Part: 40201190, two 38528040 belts per pack
- Type: flat agitator belt
- Fits: Hoover EmPower, Fold Away, Fusion, Spirit, Sprint, Hoover Bagless, Elite, Caddy Vac, Soft and Light, Soft Guard and Breathe Easy uprights
- Replace when: carpet pickup fades, the belt feels slack, or a burning rubber smell appears
