Re: LRO: RE: Engine Balancing

From: Ian Stuart (Ian.Stuart@ed.ac.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 06 2001 - 04:03:14 EDT

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    On Thursday 05 April 2001 9:20 pm, you wrote:
    > Balancing only means that the pistons, con rods and crankshaft will
    > be checked to see if they are within 1-2 grams of one another. The
    > crank gets spun and checked for harmonic imbalance.
    > All this is to help when she spins up to high rpms. At lower, like
    > 3K and below, the forces aren't all that great to necessitate the
    > effort.
    This is true,

    However (you knew this was coming, didn't you :), when you want to
    accelerate, a balanced engine will pick up quicker, and settle down
    quicker.

    It will also tick-over more smoothly (and quietly)

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