shandonwall

One of my buddies who is always swapping motors in civics tells me that I can take the belt off of the balancer shafts in my H23 prelude motor. I recently had the motor repaired (it needed a quick sleeve to fix a groove on the crank where the main seal is) and while it was apart i sent alot of parts through the parts washer at work. This meant I ended up removing the rear balancer shaft. When I put it back together according to my manual on cd-rom, i followed the directions to a "t". now I have a motor that does not run as smooth as it did before, and it has lifter tick. I'm going to do a valve adjustment, but if that doesnt fix it, is it safe to run the motor without balancer shafts.