Thread: TD5 harmonic balancer

I finally found the source of my rattle at idle on my TD5,

after changing the engine mounts (rubber was protuding from the tell tale hole underneath them, the fan hub bearing (lots of play and spinning in the housing I used loctite on the new bearing)

i discovered this,


there was no wobble when the engine was runnig.

You're lucky you found it.
I fianlly get mine back tomorrow but the harmonic balancer delaminated and destroyed the end of the crank shaft.
It's led to a complate engine rebuild since while you're doing a bottom end, you might as well do rings etc etc etc etc........
I'll be about $6,500 poorer and have been without the car for a bloody long time.... but then, that's the mechanic I use....good, but way too slow and too many excuses
Out of interesst, you obviously replaced yours, did you have a torque wrench suitable to do up the bolt to whatever ridiculous torque is needed?