Thomas Walter wrote:
> Chris,
>
> The Harmonic Balancer's do go bad with time.
>
> There are two metal parts, with a thin section of bonded rubber
> between them. Usually the machine shop would never see
> the balancer as there is no reason to send it in with the crankshaft,
> etc.
If the machine shop is doing the balancing, they will need the balancer, a
very critical piece of the rotating assembly, balance-wise. With my recent
rebuild and balance job, my balancer was found to be way out of balance. This
applies especially if the rotating parts are component balanced (as opposed to
assembly balanced), which I prefer, since future component replacement
requires that only the new part be balanced to keep the whole assembly
balanced.
Gary Boone
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom Walter
>
> Chris Lyon wrote:
>
> > Okay thanks for the help! I went to the shop today and they had finally
> > started in on it and now they are preety sure it was the harmonic
> > balancer. Why didnt they repalce it when they did the rebuild? So I saw
> > a good divot in it where it had been hitting the engine and i hope that
> > this was the problem. Of course if they didnt replace it or the machine
> > shop did'nt have anything to do with it, then its on me. Darn, I was
> > hoping to escape that part of bill! Well does anyone know how much they
> > run, and could I just order one from Sports Imports or CDM?
> > Thanks Again
> > Chris Lyon
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