[Healeys] Harmonic Balancer

[Alan Seigrist]

Bob -

There are a couple of people on the list who have had their balancers
delaminate and damage the chassis crossmember.  I would be careful ,
esp with the later BJ8 balancer which has the integrated pully which
will put additional pressure on the rubber.  The one on my BJ8 is
wobbling (!) And so I've parked it and will be pulling the motor soon.

Alan

On 7/25/09, Bob Spidell <bspidell at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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-- 
Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8