What is the wheel on my steering damper?

Was under the disco last night and saw a little wheel, about 6" attached to the steering damper? Looks a bit like a jockey wheel, wasn't turning but was a bit gunked up.

It's a Hamononic Damper Assembly and standard fitment. look up the term on the www if you require more info on what is does or suposed to do.

Googled it but it seems to be a crankshaft fitment, this is on a bracket attached to the steering damper (I think)

Does it just absorb some of the natural vibrations in the chassis?

barrow_matt said:

Googled it but it seems to be a crankshaft fitment, this is on a bracket attached to the steering damper (I think)

Does it just absorb some of the natural vibrations in the chassis?

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It takes the vibration from your motor so it dosen't shack and brake:doh:

Do a putter search- what does a harmonic balancer do, and it will answer all your questions

The one near to the front diff?
Its a "Torque reaction damper". Many vehicles like Land Rovers have them.
The idea is that it reduces vibration at certain speeds so combats the affects of natural resonance, and particularly if cornering at speed.
It's not the end of the world if it is removed. My daily driver still has it attached because I like the Range Rover to be as smooth as possible cruising on the motorway. My off roader/bobtail doesn't have it anymore as I removed it to fit the lower steering rod guard, and any likely vibration isn't so much a problem as its most definately NOT a motorway cruiser.
The wire you sometimes see attached is sometimes used by folk to tether it if the thing gets bashed off whilst off roading, though to be honest if it ever did get knocked off I'd sooner something like that dissapear out the back, rather than be knocking the crap out of the sump pan n gear box bellhousing whilst swinging around under the engine!

hope this helps?

According to my part's book Land Rover call it "Damper Assembly-Harmonic" and as always there's two types, in the uk diesel FRC9693 and petrol FTC1499.
But for Switzerland and the rest of the World only one RTC6825 very strange.

discool said:

According to my part's book Land Rover call it "Damper Assembly-Harmonic" and as always there's two types, in the uk diesel FRC9693 and petrol FTC1499.
But for Switzerland and the rest of the World only one RTC6825 very strange.

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Its quite common for part numbers to change throughout the world. When I use to be big into Italian motors, it always made me laugh that every 7 or so years FIAT and Lancia would change their parts listings, and the numbers would often also change too....buying a part in a poly bag with a part number crossed out and a sticker over it with a different number always use to be good for a laugh!...especially if, like me, you had the micro-fiche with the old part number:doh:

...but then the 308GT4 crowd used to get fooled into buying FIAT/Lancia radiators with different part numbers and Ferrari stamps over the top. Another source of great amusement for FIAT/Lancia owners..perhaps not so Ferrari owners tho!....but then there was Maserati in the late 80s, don't even go there because those parts were an immense rip-off!!

Do you mean the clutch damper?

Dippypud said:

Do you mean the clutch damper?

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He does not, that's for sure. What's a clutch damper ?????????

an hydraulic accumulator near slave cylinder

He has already posted where it is on the car :frusty: