Re: [Amc-list] Baby's got new shoes!
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Re: [Amc-list] Baby's got new shoes!



Well, I don't want to be tossing 4 pound hammers at my radiator (or at
pedestrians).

Car's back in the garage. Got parts on order from a specialist. Hoping
to have the correct water pump, a balancer, and some turn signal/back
up light gaskets soon.

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Mar 2008, Sandwich Maker wrote:
>
>  > not as a balancer, but it is still important as a damper for torsional
>  > crank vibrations.  that's what the rubber-isolated ring does - or more
>  > precisely, it splits the torsional resonant peak into two smaller
>  > peaks, one higher and one lower in rpm.
>
>  It's also a ten-pound chunk of steel spinning at 2000 rpm,
>  containing more energy than a 4 lb hammer thrown as hard as
>  you can against your radiator.
>
>
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