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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 10:23 PM
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i took my car in and had them in stall my under drive pullyes (march) on my 95 formula and they did not put the stock damper back on and ive been drive it for a couple of months and did not realise it tell i changed my alternator. what should i do
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Old Apr 20, 2006 | 07:59 AM
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If it is a "sandwich" type pulley, you need to put a stock damper back on.
Old Apr 20, 2006 | 05:14 PM
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i bleive it is will it not being on there cause any problems
Old Apr 21, 2006 | 07:18 AM
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The damper reduces torsional vibration (cyclic torsional twisting) of the crankshaft. Without the damper the magnitude of the vibrations gets larger. Eventually, the crank metal will fatigue and you run the risk of having it break. How fast that would happen on a "stockish" engine is an unknown. Bottom line.... without the damper the crank is having its life shortened.




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