Sleeve harmonic balancer?

[danoreilly]

Anybody here ever sleeved a harmonic balancer? Mine is badly grooved (71 351c) and a new one is $100 vs about $6 or so for a sleeve. The question is, is this a band-aid approach or something that's really viable for the long term?

 

[FastE]

Anybody here ever sleeved a harmonic balancer? Mine is badly grooved (71 351c) and a new one is $100 vs about $6 or so for a sleeve. The question is, is this a band-aid approach or something that's really viable for the long term?

Just depends.If you are building a performance,high reving engine I would say buy the new one.If you are doing a stock rebuild you should be OK.There is a guy that rebuilds these,I think its called the Damper Doctor.

The sleeve is not the problem,it is the elastemer(?) that is your concern.It is 35 + years old and can let the balancer start to seperate,thats what you need to watch out for.Just my .02 .Good luck!

 

[danoreilly]

I looked up Damper Doctor and they look like they may be the right people, so thanks! I've emailed them so we'll see...

 

[jorgem2]

I have heard a lot of good recomendations for "Damper Dude"

 

[Tnfastbk]

http://www.damperdoctor.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=DD&Product_Code=FOR3513&Category_Code=FOR

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