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Harmonic Balancer Installation: A Better Method? 900

posted by  spook on  Sat Apr 10 23:35 CST 2004
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Dear Steve,

Good a.m. and may this find you well. The crank was perfectly clean and smooth. Not a rust molecule was to be seen. Indeed, when I cleaned the area of the crank seal - with acetone - there was only a small amount of dirt/oil on the towel wipes.

In short, on a car with 167K, I'd not have been surprised by a bit of rust, but there was absolutely none.

I thought the balancer was supposed to fit snugly - in addition to being secured by the bolt - so would not have thought to apply anti-seize, which we had on hand (in addition to PB Blaster).

Perhaps in the FAQs, there should be a notation that coating the crank with anti-seize, WD-40, etc., will promote seating of the harmonic balancer.

In this case, though, I think even those compounds would not have enabled the balancer to slide easily into place.

This conclusion is what brought me to the question, about drilling a sight hole through the balancer's face, into the keyway, and the plugging it with grease or a rubber plug.

Yours faithfully,

spook






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