That was an amazing explanation, Ghosst. Thanks for taking the time to help out us newbies...you kinda start to feel left out when everybody's discussing something you have no idea about.
I just have one question...
Originally posted by Ghosst:
Harmonic vibration dampener.
It's attached to the crankshaft pulley (bottom centre of engine). It's (very) basically a piece of rubber inserted into a pulley that stops resonance from destroying your engine.
The dual-mode damper is an improvement, a factory supplied improvement, over the original Duratec crankshaft pulley. They supposedly make the engine run smoother and according to Terry Haines (the designer of our engine) work much better.
In the first paragraph, you speak of the damper as "a piece of rubber inserted into a pulley that stops resonance from destroying you engine". In the second paragraph you say "the dual-mode damper is an improvement...over the original Duratec crankshaft pulley". That sounds like it completely replaces the pulley. Or did you mean that "the dual-mode damper is an improvement over the original Duratec crankshaft pulley damper"? If the latter is the case, could the DM damper also be added to an underdrive pulley?
