Originally Posted By: The Critic
You have to host them. But anyway, are you rebuilding yet another failed Prius CVT? There's a shop around here that's starting to see CVT failures in Prius-es.
CVT failures are very rare in Prius second generation (+2004) cars, and rare in first generation cars. There isn't a "snowmobile" system with sliding pulleys, the ratios are determined by the planetary gear set. The transfer chain appears stout, many awd and full time 4wd's use the same system with no trouble
I got the photos from the Oak Ridge National Lab. ORNL did a teardown - reverse engineering - of a 2004 Prius to determine how it worked.