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"My truck hasn’t ran this smooth since I owned it. This balancer really works well. An issue to note that I didn’t remember seeing anywhere but maybe I just missed it: this is slightly larger than the stock balancer and once installed, the serpentine belt will not fit (at least on my truck) between the balancer and fan/water pump pulley so make sure the belt is routed on the balancer before installing. Had to install mine twice."
Do you have a problem getting the belt between the crank and water pump pulleys?
Edit - XDP's description says "The Fluidampr has been redesigned for ease of maintenance. Now, you no longer have to remove the damper to change your serpentine belt."
It was a little tight but not impossible. No stator helps tremendously.
I wasn't able to get the belt installed without pulling the water pump pulley. Maybe it's my updated pulley with the heavier snout. Maybe I got a HB from old stock. Or just maybe the claim of it having been redesigned is bs.
Gonna need a few more days to form an opinion. I didn't get a good before and after because I drove my wife's Tundra to Nashville last week, and it's so smooth that getting behind the wheel of my F250 feels like I'm driving a poorly built erector set vehicle.
Dat true. We ran a series of brake tests on their Freightliner W700 trucks out of Fed Ex facility in Fort Washington.
If there is any place brakes should be tested, it’s on package delivery vehicles, and mail carrier vehicles. My mother ran a rural route in several cars over the years and it was my job to change front brakes every 2 months, rear brakes and rotors every 6 months. The harder the brake compound, the more often rotors had to be replaced. The 4.0L Ford Explorers were her go to vehicles over the years, though there were plenty of others.
And taxis, especially inner-city ones. Mail carriers have an interesting pattern: suburban, low-speed but repetitive stops with no real brake cooling due to the low speed. The repetition drives the temperature way up despite the low-energy stops. It's all about the lack of cooling. Rural can get interesting, too, with often higher speeds between stops. Basically, it's a fade test.
If she had a Jeep, they were pure hell.
Garbage trucks are hell, too. We did Waste Management fleets in Vineland, NJ, York, PA, and Atlanta. Vineland farms would get the brakes smoking when new.
Well it's been a while and I don't have any major announcements about how the HB transformed my truck into a different machine. The only thing worth mentioning is that acceleration off the line is a hair bit smoother. Maybe half a hair. So it probably wasn't worth the extra money, but at least it doesn't have any rubber to degrade, like the bushings on my 3-year old Bilstein shocks.
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