The harmonic damper located on the front of the crankshaft serves a very important purpose. It's designed to absorb the resonate harmonics that can otherwise lead to crankshaft failure. It's assembled ...
Obtaining perfect balance is important to your engine's performance. The harmonic balancer reduces torsional vibration of the crankshaft, which is the motion naturally generated during each power ...
When you consider the crazy monkey motion of reciprocating internal combustion engines it is remarkable they work as well as they do. You have eight pistons and connecting rods doing a “do-si-do” ...