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| | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 | On my 50 261 4sp, I heard the ratta tat tat of something being thrown around in my bell housing. Took the lower cover off and a chewed up 1" long, 1/4 in diameter hunk of metal rod fell out. I believe that this was a weight tack welded to the clutch cover/pressure plate and assume it was for balancing such. Can I run without this? Or should I bite the bullet and take out my fairly new clutch assembly and either have it balanced or replace it? Thanks in advance,
Steve | | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,100 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,100 | Hy Nifty 50, as a famous GM engineer once said, " Parts left out cost nothing, and cause no service problems", so if they bothered to put that piece of metal on/in there it is there for a reason, so omit it at your peril. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 145 Wrench Fetcher | | Wrench Fetcher Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 145 | IMHO, if a piece that large came off, for sure there would be vibration. Do you have new vibrations?
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| | | | | Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2004 Posts: 5,708 | Steve.
Is there some reason you couldn't weight the piece that fell off and tack a new duplicate on in that same place. I would guess the old location would be marked with a couple of weld pimples.
Stuart | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,776 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,776 | I've watched the rebuilding process on several clutches, and the balancing procedure is the last thing that gets done after all the reconditioning and assembly is accomplished. At worst, the loss of that balance weight might create an annoying harmonic at a certain RPM, but it won't keep the clutch from functioning. Run it awhile, and see if it shakes too much to suit you. An inline six is naturally balanced, because of the even spacing between power strokes and the design of the crankshaft. It would take a pretty good bit of imbalance on the pressure plate to make things shake very much.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 223 | Thanks for all your input. I have run it and I do not feel much if any vibrations. I will see how it goes for a while.
Last edited by Nifty 50; 03/01/2009 10:38 PM. Reason: typo
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