gday!

quick question - my mums tp has bin severely leaking oil...mechanic sed it was the harmonic balancer seal and some "speedy sleeve" ?

any idea what all this does?


mechanic quoted $295 to fix it so i spose its not that bad

cheers for any info

The harmonic balancer is the bottom pulley where all your belts are driven from.

To remove it you support the engine on a jack, Remove the passenger side bash bar, undo the engine mounts and lower the engine a little. The pulley is then removed by undoing the nut on the end and pulling it off. You get at it through the passenger front wheel well ( after taking off the plastic splash gaurd.

After that you pry out the old seal with a screwdriver and push in a newy.

Assembly is the reverse prceedure...lol

"Speedy sleeve"?.......***nose.....newy on me....:eh:

because the seal eventually wears the metal on the harmonic balancer, the put a sleeve over it so make the seal good again. i put a speedy sleeve on my balancer, but by the time they need a sleeve, you need a new balancer. the rubber seperated and the balancer fell off my motor a few months later.

best bet is to get a replacement balancer that doesn't need a sleeve - if it dont need a sleeve, it hasn't done a lot of km, and will last longer.

best bet is to get a replacement balancer that doesn't need a sleeve - if it dont need a sleeve, it hasn't done a lot of km, and will last longer.
yeh $295 seems alot
i did what bcx7 said and it only cost me i think 35 for the balancer that was in fair good nick then the oil seal which was only something like $7-9 and took under an hour to do, so these days mechanic's change a standard hour rate which can be any where from 50-80

yeh $295 seems alot
i did what bcx7 said and it only cost me i think 35 for the balancer that was in fair good nick then the oil seal which was only something like $7-9


Agreed, i paid about $40 for one in good condition from a wrecker and $7 for the seal. easy enough to do yourself as old fart has described... you just need a big breaker bar or be really strong to unbolt and do up the balancer from the motor.