{"id":61,"date":"2011-10-10T16:39:59","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T16:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/?p=61"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:50:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T02:50:42","slug":"fixing-hoover-vacuum-cleaner-roller-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/fixing-hoover-vacuum-cleaner-roller-belt.html","title":{"rendered":"Fixing Hoover Vacuum Cleaner Roller Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>I have no idea how my wife can vacuum the carpet and she managed to burn the rubber belt driving the roller under the vacuum cleaner. The smell was awful, the pin driving the belt keeps spinning and wearing off the belt which was held by the immobilized roller (caught by something). The belt finally worn out totally and torn away. The Hoover vacuum cleaner is over 4 years old and it&#8217;s been very reliable. It&#8217;s called self-propelling vacuum cleaner I believe, that&#8217;s why there is a belt driving the roller, helping to move forward better, and it did. After the belt broke, it&#8217;s extremely heavy to push forward. We went to Amazon and look for the part printed right on the belt itself = 38528 &#8211; 040 and these come in 2 on a package #<\/em><strong>40201190 <\/strong><em>which is sold for $2.38 free shipping from VacuumSupplyStore (I don&#8217;t know how they can make any money selling like this). Amazingly, it came in about a week. Now we can replace the belt and have one extra one for the next incident.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozw\" title=\"Reliable Hoover Vacuum\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150651.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Reliable Hoover Vacuum\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150651.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozb\" title=\"Reliable Hoover Vacuum\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150652.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Reliable Hoover Vacuum\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150652.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There are 5 philips head screws that need to be removed to take out the roller cover.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozr\" title=\"5 + head screws holding the roller cover\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150643.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"5 + head screws holding the roller cover\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150643.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The belt is driven by a little metal shaft and the roller, the roller can be pulled straight out, but watch for the alignment when putting it back in.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozbl\" title=\"broken belt and a new one 38528 - 040\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150639.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"broken belt and a new one 38528 - 040\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150639.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozw\" title=\"Roller and metal shaft\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150645.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Roller and metal shaft\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150645.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Place the belt in both shaft and roller, then stretch the belt a little and push the roller in place, the left-side should go in first, then the belt side. Make sure the alignment is correct and both sides seat in all the way.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozr\" title=\"new belt in roller and metal shaft\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150648.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"new belt in roller and metal shaft\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150648.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozb\" title=\"The new belt is in and the roller is in place\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150649.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"The new belt is in and the roller is in place\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150649.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Put back the cover and make sure alignment is correct, it should snap in nicely, put back the screws and we&#8217;re done. <\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a class=\"ltoozw\" title=\"alignment on the cover\" href=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150650.JPG\" rel=\"hoover\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"vertical-align: baseline; border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"alignment on the cover\" src=\"\/media\/hoover\/P1150650.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The roller sounds a little louder now, or it&#8217;s just my imagination because it&#8217;s been a week since I used it. I checked and nothing is in the way of the roller spinning. Anyhow, it&#8217;s functional and lighter now.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Cheers,<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>idog<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no idea how my wife can vacuum the carpet and she managed to burn the rubber belt driving the roller under the vacuum cleaner. The smell was awful, the pin driving the belt keeps spinning and wearing off the belt which was held by the immobilized roller (caught by something). The belt finally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/fixing-hoover-vacuum-cleaner-roller-belt.html\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pink-house","tag-hoover-vacuum-belt"],"views":1452,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7377,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/7377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dognmonkey.com\/svlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}