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Old 12-17-2020, 10:40 AM   #19 (permalink)
hayden55
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Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr View Post
I don't remember when it was the last time I saw a harmonic dampener. Even some 3-cyl engines are kept deliberately unbalanced from the factory.
Must be a small engine thing? Everything for the most part has harmonic balancers or internal balance shafts here in the USA.

In Toyota fashion the Prius has a harmonic balancer with belt grooves in it and it doesn't even have an accessory drive. Probably because it already existed and worked.
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