Thanks to those who replied on the balancing. The shop is sending the rods
back to the balancer with apologies. He had no explanation for why the rods
were of such different weights. The concensus of those who replied was that
the rotating mass should be dynamically balanced without regard to the rods.
The rods should be balanced separately and independently of the rotating mass
(front pulley, crank, flywheel, clutch cover).
I plan on using a 1275 harmonic balancer on the 948 motor figuring additional
harmonic dampening couldn't be a bad thing. Can anyone out there tell me why
that's a useless or even, bad, idea?
I'm not trying to build an 8K rpm screamer, but once I decided to pay for
balancing to improve the feel of the engine and the smoothness of a daily
driver, I want what I paid for.
Thanks again,
Glen Byrns
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