Bush mechanics TD5 harmonic balancer track side repair

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Originally Posted by rick130

Hmm, good point.

I had the idler pulley bearing seize last year in the middle of the Flinders and it locked the engine solid.
Poly vee belts have an enormous about of grip!
Chris the mechanic in Hawker said he'd seen that break the aluminium pulley mount clean off, so a hell of a load would've gone through the bonded rubber in the balancer too

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I got a Tdi Freebie that had a supposed seized engine a few years ago as it wouldn`t turn over [bigwhistle]

Turned out to be a seized AC compressor after i got it in the shed [bighmmm]

That was a cheap fix[thumbsupbig]

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Originally Posted by djam1

Yea I think it is
It is a Defender after all

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:lol2:

I'm still marvelling at the smoothness and quietness of a Discovery after fifteen years in a Deafener. [biggrin]

Still miss the old girl though.

Its a good bush fix, but he could have driven the 1000k with only the broken hub in place. Mine went at 190k ( & previously had the thermatic fan replaced, so maybe a link?) early on a high plains trip. Luckily my passenger was a top mechanic who assured me that we could do the trip without it but to replace it ASAP back in Melb. Its now got a Ross balancer. Mine took a bit off the fan which pin holed the radiator, but some bars leaks fixed that till I got home too..
David