95 accord vti harmonic balancer needs replacing!

[gwog]

My 95 accord vti needs a new harmonic balancer. My mechanic warned me about it. My car is manual and done over 300k kms, does anyone know how much it would cost to fit in a new harmonic balancer? How big of a job is it? What will happen if I dont replace it? And does anyone know anyone who would replace it for a good price? I also had the timing belt changed around 10,000kms ago if that means anything.

[Jasemas]

Wow wow
Let's calm down tiger
So you need a new harmonic balancer?
Okay did your mechanic say why?
Is it broken, damaged? - mine is damaged, where it shreds the power steering belt and atlernator belt after a while
How mechanically minded are you?
I new one will set you back quite a bit $140
It's not hard to change unless you do not have the right tools
BUT you need a special tool to hold the harmonic balancer to crack open the pulley bolt

See if you can chuck up some pics of it
It's hidden behind a splash shield

[gwog]

Not really mechanically minded lol. My dad Got the mechanics to look at it again, there telling me it needs a new crank shaft? Some sort of pulley crank shaft thats got something to do with the harmomic balancer. He reckons if I dont replace that crankshaft it will eventually break and I might aswell buy a new motor then. So yeah, im kinda freaking out that I need a new motor. I bought my accord off a dealer, and I swear this car isnt stock. It has power, im not sure what work the previous owners did to it, but we did a 0-100 test and it did it in 7.5seconds! That's why I want to avoid buying a whole new engine and all that, I just have no idea what the previous owner did to the car, everything looks stock, it doesnt have extractors or a cold air intake, its just stock, and it barely drinks any petrol at all, I once put 10 bucks worth of petrol in the car and I swear it lasted me 4 hours of non stop driving at 2am with no traffic. All this is on a 330,000km engine by the way. So it would be a shame to throw away such a good engine.

[Jasemas]

Oh dear
A new crankshaft is pretty much a new engine
The amount of labour needed to pull out engine, disassembly
I think the mechanic is talking horse shit
Take it to a honda mechanic
Put up some pics of your engine and crankshaft please so we can do some guess work