drcolt
20+ Year Contributor
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- Jun 27, 2003
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Toronto,
ON_Canada
I am in the middle of changing cams to performance cams and I figured to replace the timing belt and all seals and pulleys and waterpump, etc....... remove balance shaft. or not. I dont know the history of the motor I have. All I know is the donor car had over 530K kms on it.
I then recalled this was talked about a few years back, found this site, http://www.jackstransmissions.com/pages/keep-your-balance-shafts
That article makes a lot of sense. I believe BS failure is improper maintenance. I do have the kit for deleting, but now I am thinking I might just keep them. I am not after big hp. I do want a nice driving motor, although there is nothing smooth about the colt!
This should be a good read for new dsm owners.
There have been nissans that have had issues with knock at high rpms when balance shafts have been removed.
Porsche makes their motors with BS, as well as many other manufacturers of large displacement 4 bangers.
I then recalled this was talked about a few years back, found this site, http://www.jackstransmissions.com/pages/keep-your-balance-shafts
That article makes a lot of sense. I believe BS failure is improper maintenance. I do have the kit for deleting, but now I am thinking I might just keep them. I am not after big hp. I do want a nice driving motor, although there is nothing smooth about the colt!
This should be a good read for new dsm owners.
There have been nissans that have had issues with knock at high rpms when balance shafts have been removed.
Porsche makes their motors with BS, as well as many other manufacturers of large displacement 4 bangers.