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Old 10-08-2009, 09:51 AM
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Default Balancer - Ring Slippage

Argess,

For the rest of us folks here a little more detail in the failure would be helpful.

Was this a tired 30 or 40 + year old damper or was this some aftermarket relatively new part ? I am tring to understand if its a part quality issue (so others can get a heads up) , or a dry-rotted, aged, shrunken dampening material in the balancer ? In other words do you have an idea as to the root cause ? The reference marking idea is good and will help others monitor the damper if slippage begins to happen. Sorry you had the detonation failure, that just plain sucks.
Bill
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