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Originally Posted by madmaxx
No, you said vibrations, I meant when the cylinder opposite of the other end fires the crank "twist" and the harmonic balancer helps resist this twisting. I dont think it balances anything it is more of a gyroscope.
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No, I said harmonics. Actually I said vibration harmonics, which is really a redundant phrase....but I digress.
It's a damper. Harmonic damper. Whatever you want to call it, it's a shock absorber for harmonics in the engine.
It's easy to do a Google or Wikipedia search and pull off a big long string of engineering associated words, but I was trying to get the jist of it across, as this is more of a fundamentals type post.