the grooves cut in the harmonic balancer channel the oil that gets on it
back into the timing cover instead of all over the front of the motor. Be
sure to center the cover when you tighten it so that the cover does not rub
anywhere on the harmonic balancer
-----Original Message-----
From: Brian <Banzai(at)ticnet.com>
Cc: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 9:19 PM
Subject: Crank pully
>I was about to put my engen back in my SV and I decited to plug the
>starter in and run it to make shure it could turn the engen. Well, it
>dident, the starter passed all bench tests so its all good. I tryed hand
>cranking it and it was a pain the (at)ss So I had to figure ot what was going
>on. The first thing I thought was "Hmm, the Harmonic Ballincer made
>turning it hard when I was putting it to gether." So I took that off and
>looked at it, it was all in good condition. Then I tood the timing chane
>covor off and looked at that, and looked how it fit in and stuff. It fit
>fine, Looke at the bolt holes in the timing chane covor dident fit the
>bolts exactly, So I just put the Balencer on with the timeing chane covor
>on but not bolted on and then put 2 bolts in to hold it in place. Then
>took the balencer off and put the rest on, It works now, and its real
>smooth as I spinn it. But the queston of the day is, How does it keep
>oil in with the gap so big between the hole in the timeing chane covor and
>the ballencer, I see no seals or anything. I can see how the groves will
>help channel the oil back into the engen but it dosent seem like that
>would be enough.
>
>Brian
>Banzai-Dude
>
>
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