Factory Engine Balancing

[jklein68]

Saw this posted by DaveP in another topic that will remain un-named.

"Stock engines are "well balanced" too. Probably better than any aftermarket shop can do. Production engines were balanced while they were running. Can your shop do that?"

Really caught my attention, I've never heard anything like that before. Just wondering if someone wouldn't mind taking a minute to educate me.

TIA!

Jason

 

[Don W.]

Re: Factory Engine Balancing

As I understand, after standard balancing like we're familiar with, a "running" balance was done. Exactly how it was done I don't know but the way that final balance was accomplished was by adding weights to those little holes in the front damper.

HTH