I purchased a used stock crank pulley that was damaged in the mail. there are multiple chips on it and I'm wondering if this will effect anything in any way. I hear this is balanced and dampered, and could cause lots of damage using aftermarket parts ie.. unorthodox pulley. That is why I am changing it in the first place. I don't want to replace a bad part with another bad part.

2000 base prelude if thats important


Thanks

 

Chips on the edge of the crank pulley are fine.


Modified by mgags7 at 12:09 AM 11/9/2007

 

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Chips on the edge of the crank pulley are fine. </TD></TR></TABLE>

hmmmm i didn't know that....

 

What about throwing off the balance, and the weight? thats the whole reason I'm replacing the unorthodox one. The chips are pretty bad.

 

Honda engines are internally balanced, so the crank pulley isn't going to do much to mess that up unless it weighs a serious amount.

The chips are outside of the harmonic system that the crank is in, they're behind the rubber ring, so any distortion they may cause, which would be negligible, would be soaked up by the rubber ring.

Chips in an unorthodox pulley would be a different story, because they don't contain a harmonic dampener, so possibly the harmonics generated by big chips could work their way into the bottom end.

cliffs: I'm right, and it's fine.

 

What's so bad about the Unorthodox Racing Crank pulley?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by mgags7 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Honda engines are internally balanced, so the crank pulley isn't going to do much to mess that up unless it weighs a serious amount.

The chips are outside of the harmonic system that the crank is in, they're behind the rubber ring, so any distortion they may cause, which would be negligible, would be soaked up by the rubber ring.

Chips in an unorthodox pulley would be a different story, because they don't contain a harmonic dampener, so possibly the harmonics generated by big chips could work their way into the bottom end. </TD></TR></TABLE>

So in short, just don't damage the unorthodox pulley because they aren't made with a damper.

Any other reason people are getting rid of their Unorthodox pulleys?

I need a single belt pulley that'll work for the H22A, that's why I'm curious. Only one avail is the unorthodox pulley.