[Healeys] Harmonic Balancer

[Bob Spidell]

FWIW, the balancer on my BJ8 was cracked and looked tired but we used it anyway when we rebuilt the engine about 80K miles ago. Still running fine. 

The risk is the balancer coming apart, but I've never heard of that happening. 



Bob 



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Day" <fsufan1952 at yahoo.com> 
To: healeys at autox.team.net 
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 10:28:20 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific 
Subject: [Healeys] Harmonic Balancer 

I am getting my 67 BJ-8 motor cleaned up to paint before I put it back in the car.I noticed the harmonic Balancer looked a little tired.The rubber looks dried up,it's still all there but it has cracks.My question to the list is,what damage would be done to leave it alone?It looks as though it would be a job to remove it and a replacement is around $350. 
As always any and all info would be helpful. 

Thanks Don 
67BJ-8 still under re-construction 
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