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Does my Harmonic Balancer need replacing???
Had a bad noise on the VS V6 today got it home and loosen the belt to check pulleys first.
Found I can turn the outer casing on the harmonic balancer.
Q1. So does it need replacing?
Q2. The mechanic is not far away about 500m. So should I take the belt off and drive it down to him?
Cheers Pete.
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The harmonic balancer will spin with or without the belt as it's bolted onto the crankshaft.
And yeh if you can move the outer casing by hand you're up for a new balancer. Pretty easy job if your handy with tools, i'd change your CAS while it's off if it hasn't been replaced.
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Thanks for that.
I was just thinking if I take the belt off it will stop the noise and anymore damage.
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just whatever you do, dont ask for backyard mechanical ways to do it lmfao. these ppl are viscious
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yes seen that
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lol. i just cant help but to laugh
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Well since I`ve been on here I have had some great advice and given some back.
I love this place.
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Hi Pete,
In answer to your original question, Driving it only 500m to the mechanic without the belt will be fine as long as you do it while the engine is cool to avoid potential overheating.
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Thanks mate will start it and drive straight down in the morning.
Got the HB $330 for me about $520 retail from Holden.
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and for the record pete, i love this place to. and i wasnt out to start anything in my thread but it got ugly anyway lol. now the thread is locked or gone(cant find it) lol
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Where'd you get the HB from?
Still seems a bit steep in price, just informing you incase you wanted to go back for a refund tomorow and buy it from somewhere else before you put it on.
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i believe he was going to get the mechanic to put it on for him but i may be wrong. lol.
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Its resonable if its including labour i suppose, but 330 for just the part is expensive. Should be around with 150 from Repco etc.
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It`s all good mate thanks for that.
Overtime will pay for it so I`m not worried.
Last edited by VS_Pete_1; 27-01-2012 at 07:04 PM.
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I took the belt off ready for the morning trip I`m not going to have any power steering how heavy will it be?
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Why cant you just drive it with the belt
My ride-VS commo, Just finishing the manual conversion. Working out those annoying bits!
Yeah just drive with the belt. Even 500m I wouldn't risk without the waterpump. Plus no alternator etc etc. steering will be very heavy. Worse than a car without power steering
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ok was thinking about noise and more damage
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If its only gotta go 500m up the road, just drive it up there with no belt, it wont hurt anything, just be sure to drive it straight up there from dead cold, dont go starting it for any other reason until you are right to leave ,cause it wont take very long to get hot once its running with no water pump running, you will have probably 5 min or so running time max. I wouldnt run it any longer than that.
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Thinking the same thing Brett.
Going up early 6am so just got one set of lights which are always green lol.
I`ll keep an eye on temps and should be ok.
Thanks all for imput.
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Remind me to put the part in the car in the morning when I log on lol
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Drive it with the belt still on. the only part that will get damaged is the old harmonic balancer. It cant fall off, either. I did ~1200km driving around for a few weeks with a stuffed one on, it wont do any harm.
The risk of getting stuck in traffic/an accident/whatever and overheating is far worse than any risk of driving with the belt on.
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All went sweet got it down at 5am.
And I found $300 I had hidden about 2 years ago lol.
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