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Old 09-06-2010, 12:59 AM
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The purpose of the vibration damper is to reduce the torsional vibrations in the crankshaft ...

It comes in handy to offset any harmonic...it's there to prevent stress to the crankshaft..

Personally I wouldn't remove it...all part of the engine design.
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