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Old 01-11-2017, 03:33 PM
Zulfiqar Zulfiqar is offline
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If the balance shaft gears strip, the effect isnt just a rough engine, its a very noisy engine accompanied with cam position (TDC) failures showing up as check engine lamp codes as the cam timing goes out of sync because the timing chain is flopping about.

If its just a rough effect while driving it mostly bad motor mounts or that broken piece on the intake manifold as shown by p2scho. The 112 engines also feel very rough when the motor mounts collapse - specially pronounced if the engine is dead cold and in D. The roughness also can be due to a bad torque converter but thats when your trans fluid mixes with antifreeze.

The 272 balance shaft repair is not a very user freindly job due to the design of the engine. So dont buy one as a fixer upper.
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