hitmanpty

:rofl :

hogsnvettes

You will find a long piece of wood and 3lb mallett in most mechanics toolkits. GM harmonic balancers of our vintage are either iron or mild steel and wood is not going to harm it.

hitmanpty

ok after fighting all afternoon with i finaly took it out.

the HB was a mest very bad contion. tomorrow I will try to instal the new one after I fix the thread. I damege the tip just a little I think I can fix that.
here are some pics of the old balancer

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hitmanpty

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ex-x-fire

Make sure your timing cover is in good shape. Mine wasn't when that happened to my balancer.

Kubs

No need to remove the engine to do a cam swap. I did mine in an afternoon with the engine in place. You have to take at least one engine mount bolt out to lift the engine slightly so the cam will clear the crossmember above the steering rack.

hitmanpty

Fin the thread no my install is no good since the the thread of the tool is to bit foro my car. Tomorrow i Well go out and get new instaler

desertmike1

you guys are compairing apples to oranges, the LT1 2 piece ballencer will require from time to time; a few taps to get the outer Ballencer off of the inner Hub. Never use this procedure on a single piece ballencer.

your both right and both wrong on this one...just saying

Cliff Harris

I used a long bolt and a lot of washers. Tighten bolt to pull the balancer on a little way. Take out bolt. Add washers. Tighten bolt. Add washers...

When I had a '78 Corvette I used a hammer to tap it on, but there is no room for that on a C4.

I just found out that washers are arandelas...

hitmanpty

Sorry about this post.iam using my samsung galaxy and this thing keep changing the letters i type in. No even l undestand What it say .

hitmanpty

ok saturday I install the new harmonic balancer. it was very dificult task. not so much for theisntall it self.but because the little room to work on.

after all after noon finally finish.

next day iset the engone to 6* BTDC with out a problem.
I went for a test drive. no back fire.

next will test fuel preasure

thank you all for all the help. with outthe forum. I will never do it.

kimmer

Congrats on the job, bet you feel good doing it yourself now that it is done.

Midnight 85

I'm doing a cam change right now and I did my balancer removing the exact same way Agent 86 did. In fact I'm almost convinced that is why that hard line has that bend in it like it does. I was even able to use my impact wrench to remove the balancer but my radiator was not in the way.

desertmike1

Midnight 85

Another case of our cars being the same but different, my cam came right out with no interferance from that crossmember, It almost came completely out of the block before I had to move the condenser.