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

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" Balancer isn't as badly needed on an inline 6 since it's zero balanced
" unlike the V8s. Quite a few 4.0L engines have tossed their balancers
" and kept going till extremely boiled out.

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.
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