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Message: [QUOTE="TARM, post: 358980, member: 578"] Thought I would update this with my adventure in what should have been such a basic install. Decided to go ahead and install the Fluid dampener. Slide it on to the initial amount with no trouble engaging the key. Then using a proper dampener install kit started tightening things down. It seemed to take quite a bit of force but I know some of these fit quite tight with some even needing a bit of honing for proper fit. Given this I felt things were fine. Got it till I hit solid resistance. Then looking down at it seemed like it was not sitting flush or even a bit cockeyed. No way I figured as I had checked it when it first started and then after it was about half way on. Grabbed a depth gauge and sure enough the damn thing is not even. Swap over to the dampener puller of which the Fluid dampener uses different threading than the stock one. The ones even in the master kit were too small so off to the store. Got back pulled the dampener off. Looking at the dampener and the key pathway is all gouged up as if I forced in on way out of line. I knew this was impossible just given how easy it first started. The more I look at this Fluid dampener the more something looked different. But comparing it to the stock one it looks about right. It was then I noticed that it looked way to shiny on teh inside right next to seal. I end up pulling the LPOP cover and sitting right there is the seal. It seems these things have two pieces. What I figured out was the first seal was in perfect alignment but must have been installed out of line with the rear part so the key pathways were off. Either that or it got rotated before it got to me. Anyways now I had a seal stuck on there with only the small falt sections of the crank behind it to allow an area to pull from. I ended up grinding down the tabs on a pitmanarm puller I think it was to fit and then used it to pull off the seal. So So not I have a Fluid Dampener that is messed up as well as the seal is out of it. I have hacked up my puller. To wrap it up it looks like I will now end up having to go with the stock balancer and just eat the Fluid Dampener as there is no way I can prove how it actually happened. Sometimes you just have bad days So just a suggestion to anyone installing a Fluid Dampener make sure to check the full key race way in the dampener to make sure the two parts are in perfect alignment. I would not even want to think what would have happened if I had not caught it and had actually run it that way. [/QUOTE]