i say knock the HB on and you come behind me and you say......... "Never...NEVER....hammer a cold harmonic balancer onto a crank. The way most of us old timers do it is to place the balancer in a pan of boiling water for 5-10 minutes."

and that's not putting me down. i do it the way GM says do it. i think you should have put in a few more "nevers". i don't know who the old timers are you are talking about, but, im as old as they get, and have put on or seen a lot more HB put on than most people here has, and been in a repair shop everyday of my life and ive never heard of it being done that away, because heating it that little bit wouldn't make no dif, if you had of said thats was the way you did it, i would have let it go, because i don't care how you do it, but when you tell me im wrong im not gonna let it go. it always amazes how a person can come on here and tell someone else they are wrong and when that person turns it around then he is "ignorance" you are in the house boiling a HB in a pan of water that would have went on just as easy whitout doing that and im "ignorance" ?????? you don't talk about me i want talk about you.