Damn! I bet that is what is happening. Paul gets the A+ on this one. The
balancer was the one on the junkyard motor. I should have know that the
only salvagable moving part of that motor would come back to bite me.... by
being a moveable part! I'm thinking of a lister's tag line about duct tape
and WD-40. Time for the duct tape.
Glen
> Hi Glen,
>
> Glad that bit is sorted out. But I was once plagued with an engine that
> slowly went out of time. Just a few degrees at a time, but after several
> retimings it was runny really crappy. What I found was the outer
> perimeter
> of the harmonic balancer was loose on the rubber and was slowly moving!
> That might be what's happening to yours.
>
> I simply let mine alone until it started to move forward off the rubber
> and
> then I robbed another Austin America of it's harmonic balancer.
>
> Later, Paul A
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