Honda Harmonic Balancer
Torsional vibration is produced when the power is transmitted by the engine through
the crankshaft of your Honda vehicle. It may sound simpler but it is considered
a big factor that causes numerous failures of the engine. As explained
in a technical context, a torsional vibration is an oscillatory angular motion
that causes twisting in shaft sections and couplings of the machinery. If the
said vibration continues to occur excessively, one major indication of its damaging
effect are problems related to gear noise and coupling wear. Consequently, it
could lead to many other serious damages such as shaft fatigue failures or cracking
of the crankshaft, accelerated gear wear, excessive bearing wear, slippage of
coupling hubs, motor winding loosening, gear tooth failures, key deformation and
other similar consequences.
Torsional vibration can be considered worst occurrence to any machinery because
of its potential damaging effects. However, in the age where modern technology
advancements are well-applied of and makes practically everything as automated
as possible, those harmful possibilities should not deter the efficiency of the
operation as there are already several measurement techniques to counter those
mentioned resulting dilemmas. These techniques will help determine the proper
damping required in the internal combustion engines. Furthermore, to minimize
significantly the excessiveness of the torsional vibrations a vibration damper,
in the form of harmonic balancer, came standard on the vehicles.
Harmonic balancer is the device being attached to the front part of the crankshaft
which causes all of the troubles. When it is connected properly, it will keep
the operation of the crankshaft as smoothly as possible, and a lot calmer than
with the absence of the damper device. It is usually a composition of two pieces
of connecting parts (rubber plugs and spring loaded friction discs) which serves
as the actual dampers. The inner steel ring is bolted to the crankshaft while
the outer steel ring has grooves for the belt.
As these components are involved in the tedious routine of the internal combustion
engines, these are also part of those that would likely meet wear-out conditions.
And the major incident where your Honda harmonic balancer fails to carry out its
task is the excessive engine noise. When this occurred, you will need to have
a mechanic check for it and apply possible treatments or replace it if need be.
