Alice is a 2006 R52JCW
Not three months ago I had the dear girl on a rack and I marked the harmonic damper because, although it looked great I had doubts because it also looked original. And lets face it, damper failure is notorious. I looked at it and aggravated the thing with a pry bar and got no unusual movement, couldn't see anything wrong with it so I moved on. Maybe two weeks later after a hard road trip I had her up again and looked to see the marks I had made were still in alignment. So I removed the damper from my going to die any second mental check list, and worse, my WMW shopping cart where it had sat for OH so many weeks. Wrong. LOL. As fate would have it today the daughter drops off her BFF at home and at the first traffic signal she feels a thump and then Alice just didn't drive right. Within a mile, per daughters testimony, Alice started to get hot and the charge light came on. Daughter pulls in to a nearby place and calls me and tells me everything I just told you. I ask her if the belt is still there or did it go missing from the engine and she says everything is here and looks normal. Hmm. Sure sounded like a tossed belt to me for sure. So I hang up with the client ( I was tired of talking to anyway) and go look. Its only a few blocks away at Joey Ds Italian Restaurant and Bar. I get there and give her a look and, sure enough, Punkin is right, everything looks as it should. I ask Punkin to start the engine which she does. I observed the belts and assorted driven pulleys while Alice idled and gurgled happily like she is want to do and it all looks and sounds normal. Then the belt stopped turning and it all still looked and sounded normal but the belt was static. Looking deep I see the weighted end of the crank shaft damper is spinning while the actual pulley remained motionless. Aha! The darn thing still looks pristine too. Go figure.

Oh and we found out why the $20 dollar tow eyes cost $20. Not $120.00 I should have known they were just for show being aluminum. I'm such an idiot some times. Didn't make it 50' before it sheered right off.

 

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Just a heads up...
That big weight on the end of the crank shaft, is a "harmonic damper", NOT a balancer !
There no balancing action going on what so ever with that part. It's a zero balance part when the guy at the balance shop does his rotating mass, balancing work.

The ATI damper is one of the best when it comes time for a replacement.

Mike

 

Just stopped back in to say thanks to @WayMotorWorks for getting us an ATI 2% damper like a bullet. Car runs great! Thanks Way!