Did my first balancer today!
 

So we had a car in the shop, 1987 Delta 88. Had a P/S leak, which we fixed, and i delivered the car back to the customer. About 2 hours later she called saying the engine was making a knocking noise. FIRST thing that poped into my head was "balancer". I was expecting a really hard job, considering the one i did with my boss on his '92 Lesabre was a bitch. Well this one came off no problem, took out the inner panel and the bolt came right out with the impact, and i pulled it off with my hand. Luckily we have a spare 3.8 engine in the back of the shop, so i snagged the balancer off of that (which was in perfect shape, BTW) and put that on there. Worked like a charm! Only charged her $50 for the used balancer, whereas a new one was like $130. Just wanted to share my pride.

OFF BY HAND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:

you shoulda seen the one on the s2 l67 we tried to swap.....

Wow.. sounds like that bolt was coming loose and it was slowly walking off. By hand...Wow

On the older bonnies and the 3.8/ 3800's the balancer/Dampener wasn't a press fit... The bolt was at like 200Ft lbs if memory serves...

Even on my 91 it was easily removed... I think in 92 and later you absolutely had to have a puller to get the balancer off... lol

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Yea there's no bolt holes for a puller on the older style, just one bolt and a little elbow grease. I wish i could do those all day. That and those waterpumps. SO much easier without that damn motor mount in the way.

Yeah they are.... Man I wish they would have just used some dog bones in the front instead of those Torque axis mounts...LOL

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No reason why they couldn't have... Maybe a retro fit is in the future.

My balancer was tough to get off. I used a huge closed end wrench which had a perfect dip in it, with exhaust pipe on the other end. I also had to use a puller to get it off the crankshaft.