I was just getting ready to remove and replace the Harmonic Balancer on my 95GT. It's a straight forward swap, though I was just paging through my Haynes manual to find torque specs, etc, and I read their blurb about R&R of the balancer.
I understand that the crank pulley should be replaced with the same orientation to the HB, but then they also talk about "balance pins", which confused me.
"Note: if a new vibration damper is being installed, balance pins must be located in the new damper in the same relative positions as the original. Also, the pulley must be attached to the damper with the same orientation to the pins as on the original."
This is my first crack at R&R of the HB, but I don't see anything on the new HB that resembles PINS. I'm hoping these pins will be relatively obvious when I pull off the old HB. This might also be one of those "blanket" Haynes additions where they try to cover all the bases just in case the HB style is different from what they show in the book.
Can someone who has done this tell me what these "pins" are?? I'm guessing there might be guide pins on the pulley to line it up with the bolt holes on the HB or something.
I'm also replacing the seal in the timing chain cover as it has some oil around it.
I've selected a DORMAN HB as a replacement. Anyone have anything good/bad to say about them? They're one solid piece, so I won't have to worry about the rubber coming out of it like my current HB.
Any other tips?
Thanks in advance!
I understand that the crank pulley should be replaced with the same orientation to the HB, but then they also talk about "balance pins", which confused me.
"Note: if a new vibration damper is being installed, balance pins must be located in the new damper in the same relative positions as the original. Also, the pulley must be attached to the damper with the same orientation to the pins as on the original."
This is my first crack at R&R of the HB, but I don't see anything on the new HB that resembles PINS. I'm hoping these pins will be relatively obvious when I pull off the old HB. This might also be one of those "blanket" Haynes additions where they try to cover all the bases just in case the HB style is different from what they show in the book.
Can someone who has done this tell me what these "pins" are?? I'm guessing there might be guide pins on the pulley to line it up with the bolt holes on the HB or something.
I'm also replacing the seal in the timing chain cover as it has some oil around it.
I've selected a DORMAN HB as a replacement. Anyone have anything good/bad to say about them? They're one solid piece, so I won't have to worry about the rubber coming out of it like my current HB.
Any other tips?
Thanks in advance!