Balancing and i5

[Bruce Bell]

I'm a little surprised. the internals, crank, rods and pistons,
should be balanced together and the external pieces, damper,
flywheel & clutch should be true unto themselves. This way if
some bloke doesn't torque the front pulley correctly, you don't
have to re-balance the motor when you replace it. BTDT

Bruce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quattro-admin at audifans.com
> [mailto:quattro-admin at audifans.com]On
> Behalf Of Darrell Boehler
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 3:02 PM
> To: quattro at audifans.com
> Subject: Balancing and i5
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>  Hi All,
>     I am a newbe to the i5 look for balancing
> experience.  I recently had the moving parts on an MC
> engine dynamically balanced.   I
> notice the shop took  quite a bit of weight off the
> pulley /vibration damper  on the flange side. The
> flange or tang is what a
> special wrench would use to hold the crank from
> turning while removing or torqueing the pulley bolt.
> Is it normal that a  balance
> shop would remove a lot of weight in this area of the
> vibration damper.
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> Thanks
> Darrell
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