Replacing the harmonic balancer in ford bronco 1985 how do i replcace it

Here is a post with the torque specs. https://www.taurusclub.com/forum/82-maintenance-repair/254498-need-torque-specs-harmonic-balancer.html

You have to remove the water pump and the harmonic balancer. Use the correct puller do not try to hammer or pry it off, if you do it will separate sometimes and ruin it. Then just remove the bolts to the cover. It may help to take out the 2 bolts to the front of the oil pan.

You could scribe marks from your old balancer once it is off the engine. But I would not worry about it anyway because the balancer is keyed and cant be put on wrong.

You will need to remove the steering wheel...using a steering wheel puller, or a harmonic balancer puller...the turn signal switch is under the steering wheel...unscrew hold downs, trace wire from turn signal switch to under the dash behind the brake pedal, disconnect the connector wire...re-install pulling wire up from floor to inside the steering wheel...sometimes tying the wire to another object, then pull through...hope this helps.

Turn the engine manuelly by puting a socket and ratchet at the bolt on the harmonic balancer pully, if the crank turns well and good and if it dosent then the engine is seased.

You need a timing light, hook it up to #1 cylinder plug wire and start the engine-let it warm up, and loosen the hold down bolt under the distributor (1/2")-air the strobe light at the harmonic balancer and gently rotate the loose distributor one direction or the other to the setting indicated on the label on the bottom side of the hood that indicates the specifications for your engine-it should say something like "6 degrees BTDC (before top dead center), @750 RPM". In addition, it may tell you to either disconnect a vacuum hose (and plug it) from the distributor advance canister, attached to the distributor, or to unplug a 'spout' connector that does basically te same thing-provides timing adjustment beyond what the distributor static timing provides.

Not usually. However, it needs to be replaced right away because it stands a good chance of pieces breaking off and creating an unbalace condition in the engine. This condition will cause havoc inside your engine and can lead to bent or broken crankshafts and downhill from there. Hope this helps.

you can try autozones website, all you have to do is remove the belts, remove the fan and fan shroud,then remove pulley in front of balancer, then remove center bolt holding balancer, now use a puller to remove balancer, hats all good luck.

oh i get it, the starter is at the bottom rear of the engine where it mates to the transmission bell housing, u must get under the truck to see it, it is no the drivers side i believe.

Ft. Lbs N.m (newton meters)
70-90 95-122