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Originally Posted by JRL
Paid John a second visit today - he is - friendly - knowledgeable - helpful and does very good work. His attention to detail is off the charts - a real thinker.
If any of you guys are serious about doing one of these cars you need to talk to him and schedule a visit.
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Thank you for the kind words Randy!
Ran into an interesting problem last night after you left the shop. I went to install the "LS4" harmonic balancer and everything seemed to fit right so that is good... but when I went to put the old balancer in the box I noticed a little gasket/seal popped off of it which the new one did not have...This not good.
Sooo off with the new harmonic to investigate, figured just swap the gasket onto the new harmonic... yeah, nope not that easy. As it turns out the back of the new LS4 harmonic is just slightly larger then the one from the crate motor and doesn't quite fit right, I'm sure it would work better then having nothing but I want it to be right so another call to the parts store... We've got friends at the local Cadillac dealership which is who provided the new balancer for me so I called them up and ordered what I assumed to be the right piece which had to be ordered and would be in Saturday morning. Great.
So Saturday afternoon and I go to the dealership and sitting on the counter is my seal, just not the right one, they special ordered a front main seal for me
Not the right piece. So we start running through the parts diagrams and ran into an issue, apparently the 5.3 LS motors do not have this seal, which is apparently called a harmonic balancer washer, even though it is a flat metal seal with rubber attached but whatever, bottom line is no solution from the dealer.
So now unless someone on here can chime in with some advice looks like i'll be calling Renegade again on Monday to see what the proper solution for this is. I'll likely get an answer like "just use the one from the old balancer" or "just leave it out"... Hopefully there is a good solution as I'd rather not have a brand new motor with an oil leak!!
Here are a few pics... anyone with info feel free to chime in~
