harmonic balancer
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St. Jude Donor '09, '24
Can try using a little mirror and see if the elastomer ring between inner and outer pieces is broken or frayed. You will have to pull off lower fan belt pulley first to see the ring. If your timing is that far off that is probably a good bet it has slipped. The keyway on my fluid dampner is close to TDC but not right on it. Chevys usually don't break the keyways in the crank so would check the balancer first, houstonvett
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Joined: Feb 2006
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pull number 1 cylinder up to top dead center, and see where the timing mark is...if it is off even a fraction, the balancer has moved, and is bad.
watch out it will get into the timing cover and ruin lots of stuff.
watch out it will get into the timing cover and ruin lots of stuff.
