That’d be a hard no from me.

 

I've read where V rodders remove them, but they're just trying to squeeze every last drop out of the motor an those motors are pretty smooth anyway. The only reason I sold my EVO an got the TC was my old body couldn't handle the vibs that well.

 

No, nononono

 

Buy an Evo if you don't want a counterbalanced Softail.

 

You see multiple benefits, but don't seem to have considered the other side of the balance sheet! What benefits do you see? I can't see any, except losing weight!

 

Having owned a '87 Heritage without the weight that I put around 50K miles on I can tell you with certainty that the weight is there for a good reason. My whole arm would go numb on a long run. If you never take trips and stay around local, maybe but forget it for any trip.

 

The benefits I see are less weight, more HP, less moving parts for potential failure. But my main concern is the vibration. That's what I like about the B motor and I was just hoping someone here would tell me that it wouldn't be that bad.


But everything I'm reading says otherwise. So unless my mechanic comes back with something really profound, I'm probably going to keep it in.

 

There is a possibility that the crankshaft is balanced differently to an A motor, so you may give quite different running characteristics without the balancers.

 

You will be profoundly sorry if you take it out. But, I guess you could be the guy on the forum that we could refer any future people that want to to do this to so you can tell him about how terrible it was! You would be shaking crap off of that thing like mad also, not to mention it would probably be detrimental to service life, besides being very uncomfortable. ‘A' motors aren't balanced, but they are isolated. Thats for you and for the motor and accessories alike.