[Farmall] Farmall 504 diesel engine
Jim Becker
jim.becker at verizon.net
Thu Jan 20 05:47:31 PST 2005
Just a wild guess, maybe the indivudual components of the Diesel are enough
heavier to make it necessary.
Jim Becker jim.becker at verizon.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean Vinson" <vinsond at voyager.net>
To: "Farmall/IHC mailing list" <farmall at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 5:01 PM
Subject: Re: [Farmall] Farmall 504 diesel engine
> Mike Sloane wrote:
>
>> Yes, according to the parts manual, that is the balancer drive. It is not
>> on the gasoline version of the engine.
>
>>> When taking the crankshaft out of a 504 diesel. What is the unit that is
>>> bolted to the bottom of the block in the center of the crankshaft for.
>
> Just out of curiousity, does anybody know why the balancer wasn't used on
> the gasoline engine? My loose and pretty un-schooled understanding is
> that four-cylinder engines are inherently unbalanced at higher RPMs due to
> the differing travel distance of the connecting rods on the upstroke vs
> downstroke, or something like that, while six-cylinder engines are
> inherently balanced. But as I think about it, it seems the connecting rod
> physics would be the same regardless of number of cylinders. And either
> way, assuming the diesel and gas engines are both four-cylinder, I'd have
> thought they'd both have an equal need for a balancer.
>
> Dean Vinson -- Dayton Ohio
> <http://my.voyager.net/~vinsond/>
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