How big an issue are slipping balancers?

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Jerry Clayton

didn't rotate engine backwards????Maybe you better lay out how you did it!!!!!

1) Put a pointer, any pointer, aimed at an easily reached spot on your dampner.

2) Put a stick in your #1 spark plug hole and using your wrench on the crank bolt, rotate your engine until you are just past TDC (piston is heading back down the hole).

3) Remove your stick and insert your piston stop and screw the little screw part down until it touches the top of your piston and goes no further.

3) Put timing tape on your balancer with the zero degree mark aimed at your make shift pointer.

4) Rotate the engine in the normal direction all the way around until it stops again because of the piston stop. Note the degree that the pointer is aimed at (for instance, 24 degrees). Divide that number by two (12 degrees).

5) Remove your piston stop and rotate the engine a little bit farther to that number (in this example, 12 degrees).

6) You are now at TDC.

[Silverback51]

Originally Posted by patrickt

1) Put a pointer, any pointer, aimed at an easily reached spot on your dampner.

2) Put a stick in your #1 spark plug hole and using your wrench on the crank bolt, rotate your engine until you are just past TDC (piston is heading back down the hole).

3) Remove your stick and insert your piston stop and screw the little screw part down until it touches the top of your piston and goes no further.

3) Put timing tape on your balancer with the zero degree mark aimed at your make shift pointer.

4) Rotate the engine in the normal direction all the way around until it stops again because of the piston stop. Note the degree that the pointer is aimed at (for instance, 24 degrees). Divide that number by two (12 degrees).

5) Remove your piston stop and rotate the engine a little bit farther to that number (in this example, 12 degrees).

6) You are now at TDC.

Don't forget to remove all of the spark plugs. Engine rotates easier, and you won't have an compression issues trying to rotate the engine also.

[patrickt]

Originally Posted by Silverback51

Don't forget to remove all of the spark plugs. Engine rotates easier, and you won't have an compression issues trying to rotate the engine also.

I don't even bother removing the plugs. I slip the four foot long aluminum handle from my jack over my ratchet wrench and then just rotate it slowly. It makes for a very easy job.

[blykins]

Did you move your timing tape after you got to step 6?

[patrickt]

... and you can use any old timing tape, it doesn't have to be the exact size for your dampner since you're only using it to "split the difference." For that matter, you can just print this out and use it. Now c'mon, that's pretty darn simple.