Sand blasting harmonic balancer

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Feb 22, 2013 | 12:02 PM

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Sand blasting harmonic balancer

is it okay to sand blast your harmonic balancer. a friend of mine told me you can make it come a loose from the rubber. is this true has anyone had this problem

Feb 22, 2013 | 12:14 PM

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is it okay to sand blast your harmonic balancer. a friend of mine told me you can make it come a loose from the rubber. is this true has anyone had this problem

Not worth the risk.

Feb 22, 2013 | 01:42 PM

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I already did it. The funny part is the sand blaster did two that week

Feb 22, 2013 | 03:35 PM

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Oh well. What's done is done. The risk is not that the sand blasting will hurt it. The risk is that if the balancer is old/rusted enough to need sand blasting, the rubber is probably old and may have shifted causing the balancer to not run true. Old balancers just don't work for high performance applications.

Feb 22, 2013 | 05:27 PM

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I wouldn't have done that either. If I was to do something like that, probably would have used a very light media, e.g. baking soda, etc. Depending on how badly it was rusted could be a very good indicator of it either needing to be replaced like mentioned above, or neglect of the car.