My son needs a harmonic balancer for a '76 Mercury Bobcat.  We have looked at salvage yards and JC Whitney. Tons of ebay ads with no luck. Any help would be appreciated immensely.

The mechanic said that the pulleys are separated?  This is a complete learning experience for us. Am I looking for the wrong part?

Would you have ANY idea where to find this part?  I have been on the internet and made almost 30 calls. My son goes to college  in less than 2 weeks and this is his daily driver. PLEASE HELP.

Hi MSC,


If you have a 2.3L engine then you can contact Esslinger Engineering.  They might have a used one.  Also they sell brand new ones but they are smaller in diameter.  The smaller dia. might cause the accessories, Alt. power steering, to not work properly until higher engine RPM's


Dennis

Here is the exploded view. The part labeled 6A312 will be the crankshaft pulley.

When I decided to rebuild mine, I found a book written by Sven Pruett titled "How to build and modify Ford 60 degree V-6 engines" copy write 1994.  In the book it states "Over the years, several different kinds of crank dampers have been used on the Ford V-6.  Most of them were solid cast iron and did very little to dampen anything. For a brief period in the mid-1970s, some 2.8-liter engines were equipped with a true vibration damper.  These units had an elastomeric ring just like those fitted to the small-block Ford engines.  These dampers are fairly rare." 

I had two engines to work from and truly don't remember what I put on the rebuilt one.  But, I do have a balancer described above on my shelf.