All Small Six Source for 250 Harmonic Balancer and Flywheel?

[mad_science]

Hey Guys

I'm building/rebuilding a 250 for my 24 Hours of Lemons Ranchero.

Just wondering if anyone has a known source or interchange part for a harmonic damper and/or flywheel. My previous motors' flywheel fell off after the bolts backed out, so the holes were mangled.

Currently have a zero balance 302 FW ready to go from Summit for ~$200, and there's a used one on eBay right now for ~$140. Didn't realize they were so hard to find. Any other sources?

Damper appears to be completely NLA. I've got 3 in various stages of deterioration that I can send to DamperDudes for rebuilds, but didn't know if there's somewhere I can just grab one off the shelf.

 

[Jmustang_65]

Check Damperdudes.net

Ford

www.damperdudes.net

Edited: ops just seen that you mentioned damper dudes. lol

 

[Jmustang_65]

Here's another site DamperDoctor.com

FOR2501 68-78 #C8DE-A, C9TE-A1, D2DE-A, A2A, D5DE-AA

damperdoctor.com

 

[powerband]

FW- Many aftermarket 'racing' and/or SFI rated 157T for SBF have removable weights for 28 or 50 oz ext. bal. era V8. Without the weights 157T SBF are used on the 250/4.1L, unfortunately the SFI - racing rated are harder to afford.

$ 200 for a new FW sounds about right - these days.

AFAIH - no aftermarket bolt-on new production balancers for the 250.


"Fisher" (now Fisher Concepts?) 250 Balancer from wayback' ( in my '61 Comet ) :

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> flywheel fell off after the bolts backed out, =
Oddly enuff' I also had a FW loosen up on a 250.

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hav e fun

 

[bubba22349]

Stock spec 250 six Flywheels are 157 T & Zero imbalance they can also be found at severial sources in about the $85.00 to $100.00 range not sure if the rules for 24 Hours of Lemons allows their use or not. If they do look for the 250 six Manual Trans options used in 1969 to 1971 Fairlane / Torino, 1969 to 1970 1/2 Falcon, 1971 to 77 Maverick & Comet, 1971 to 1973 Mustang, or 1975 to 1980 Grenada & the Monarch. When you reassemble your flywheel use some "Lock Tite" on all the flange bolts to help them stay tight. Best of luck

 

[powerband]

I definitely don't want my Flywheel 'falling off' at 5500 RPM shift .

previous on-topic post :

Flywheel Loosened - 250

Flywheel Loosened twice - 250 engine with T5 in 61 Comet. SBF BH with T5 adapter. 157T Neutral balance SFI Flywheel - Centerforce clutch. Shortly after swapping a tranny few years back, the clutch felt odd and noisy. Removed to find ARP fasteners slightly loose and flywheel slightly loose. I...

fordsix.com

New FW, careful cleaning/degrease of threads in crank, new spec'd bolts, and careful application of strong thread locker (Red LT') solves it... hopefully.

have fun

 

[drag-200stang]

I now test the bottle of loctite I am going to use on some scrap parts to make sure that it is good and will do the job...If it takes another day so be it, it is to important that it works.

 

[sixtseventwo4d]

Some Loctite can be had in a tube applicator ( like chapstick). It really is nice when compared to the old drippy mess and you can get better thread coverage

 

[chad]

take weights offa 302 FW? a 300/4.9 FW? may B the wrong # teeth?...
Matt has HBs?...

 

[John Ha]

I am using a Ford Performance M6375D302B flywheel I got from Summit Racing on my 250. It's been working very well.