{"id":13029,"date":"2020-04-15T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T16:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/?p=13029"},"modified":"2020-04-15T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T16:44:18","slug":"crankshaft-balancer-removal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/?p=13029","title":{"rendered":"Crankshaft Balancer Removal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">On some 2019 CT6; 2019-2020 XT4, Silverado, Sierra; 2020 CT4, CT5, XT5, XT6, Blazer, and Acadia models equipped with the 2.0L engine (RPO LSY) or 2.7L engine (RPO L3B), the crankshaft sprocket may disengage from the crankshaft during crankshaft balancer removal. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Anytime that the crankshaft balancer (Fig. 10, #1) is removed for service, ensure that the crankshaft sprocket (Fig. 10, #2) is not sticking to the crankshaft balancer; otherwise, the sprocket will pull off the end of the crankshaft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\n<p class=\"western\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13006\" src=\"https:\/\/techlink.mynetworkcontent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/F10-crank-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/F10-crank-1.png 740w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/F10-crank-1-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/F10-crank-1-85x55.png 85w, https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/F10-crank-1-200x130.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>Fig. 10<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">To separate the crankshaft balancer from the crankshaft sprocket during service, first loosen the crankshaft balancer bolt a few turns and then strike the crankshaft balancer with a rubber mallet. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><b>TIP:<\/b> Do not rotate the crankshaft on these engines with the crankshaft balancer removed. The crankshaft balancer and bolt must be reinstalled to avoid damage to the crankshaft sprocket, crankshaft and valvetrain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><i>&#8211; Thanks to Raymond Haglund<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On some 2019 CT6; 2019-2020 XT4, Silverado, Sierra; 2020 CT4, CT5, XT5, XT6, Blazer, and Acadia models equipped with the 2.0L engine (RPO LSY) or 2.7L engine (RPO L3B), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13030,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13029\/revisions\/13030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gm-techlink.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}