Lol, not knowing about what the balancer shafts were actually designed to do. My newb assumption was that it kept the bottom end from scattering at high RPM. I understand the concept of balancing a crank and why they have harmonic balancers and weighted flywheels, I thought this was an engineering design that was to replace those two components.
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No big deal, it isn’t a noob mistake at all. It’s good to have it on there for smoothness. It doesn’t hurt anything. A lot of these cars get abused pretty badly before getting picked up by someone like you who cares enough to even ask. Who cares enough to maintain the car!
The flywheel on these are just regular balanced. And the cranks are balanced without the flywheel on. And the crank pulleys aren’t weighted either. Honda balanced every piece by itself! Which is great for us. Easy to swap parts.
The crank on your accord could spin to 10-11k and not break as long as the rod bolts didn’t break. Eventually over rev will cause the cranks to split in half, but that’s almost always only on Turbo h-series motors revving up to 9~~k and being put through unimaginable abuse compared to a non turbo car.
If you keep your oil full and fresh, following Honda’s guidelines for your temperature range you won’t see any problems.
And keep the valves adjusted properly, to keep the valves from burning up.Comment
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