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Re: EcoTec balance shaft ques
Posted to Technical Discussion Forum on 1/7/2014

I would not waste the customers money on that repair. Those shafts should turn and fall to their weighted side with ease. With all the metal and aluminium that went through the oil pump and possibly a bypassed filter, I would call it a anchor.

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