I personally don't have any experience with viscous dampers, however, I
believe Mike Belfer used to run one on his TR-3. Bill Dentinger, can you
help?
On flywheels, I can help. In my SCCA race car, I used an aluminum flywheel
drilled out for a second dowel pin. The hole is already in the crank for
one. I also used longer dowel pins so that they would stick through the
flywheel by about 1/8" when fully installed. I also used the stock
locktabs for the flywheel mounting bolts, fitted so that each locktab was
mounted across the top of one of the dowel pins. Essentially this was to
keep the dowel pins from backing out. I used locktite on the flywheel
bolts to keep them from loosening up. I used the stock flywheel bolts.
Once I went to this setup, I never had a flywheel come loose. Good lick.
-----Original Message-----
From: John and Mary Wagner [SMTP:jonma@dotnet.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 2:42 PM
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: Fluidfilled harmonic dampers
IN the true sense of preservation, has anyone ever tried to mount a
fluid filled harmonic damper on TR engine,such as a"Fluidampr"for a
chev, ford, olds, ect. I know pulleys will be a problem,and shaft size
on most engines are 1.250+ - compared to 1.125+ - on aTR. What about
having a crank cut to fit one of the above. How about bolting down one
of these new aluminum flywheels,that has always been a problem . Do we
need more bolts and dowel pins? I will appreciate any feedback. Agin I
want to say; this is preservation thing. TR engines are like dirt (They
don't make them anymore.) Just the wrench JW.
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