The new dampner has yet to arrive, but I went ahead and started on pulling off the old one. I picked up the KD Tool Harmonic Balancer Removal & Installation tool. It's like all the rest of them, you have three little claw type things, a big bolt that goes through the middle of it, and a little pole that fits in the bolt and which pushes out in to the crank thus pulling the balancer off.
Of course, the little triangle claw things didn't fit worth a darn on my existing broken dampner and/or pulley and had a tendency to try and fall off (the dampner was on there pretty tight). The steel claw part comes apart and it was easy to fab up the pulley in front of the steel brace that the big bolt goes through, along with new two inch long 3/8-16 bolts (Grade 5) and hardened washers and then screw those new bolts directly in to the existing dampner. The little copper wire is just there to hold the steel brace lightly on to the pulley so it will self-center.
Once done, it comes out slowly, but easily.
And last, but not least, a shot of my "two piece" dampner. When my new Romac arrives I'll post shots of the install. I think the KD Tool will actually work for that.
