Re: Balancing the flywheel on the 41 pickup at home.
Mart, I DO love your videos, but like so many I don't have any real machinist tools. I have balanced a flywheel by using an inverted plumb bob with a threaded tip ground off to expose a hole for a wire which I hung from a ceiling joist. Even the smallest weight would tilt it one way or the other. This was for a one lung flywheel engine I made from a bunch of different parts. Set above my workbench, which is perfectly level I could measure up to check equal distance. I don't think friction comes into play. I got the idea from the old bubble balancers and JC Whitney Lawn mower blade balancer. Perhaps way too crude for an automobile engine.... OR?
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Owner/Operator of 'Jailbar Ranch' on the side of Mt. Pickett. Current stable consists of 1946 1/2 ton pickup turned woodie wagon with FH V8, 1947 Tonner Pickup (red) mostly stock with exception of a cummins 6at turbo diesel, 1946 Tonner Pickup (green) with 226 cu in 6 cyl flathead, 1979 Toyota landcruiser wagon, completely encased in 1947 Ford Jailbar sheet metal. Ok, cornbinder rear fenders..... 'Rusty ol' floorboards, hot on their feet' (Alan Jackson)
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