Topic: Briggs 17 horse AVS

[Wildones]

Hey, I have a 17 hp intek that has the AVS and had the counterbalance pin come out to do some damage.  I was wondering if I could just remove the counterbalance in this style engine and keep running without problems or do I have to have the rotating assembly balanced?  I can handle the engine shaking as long as the engine can handle it also.  I was told that this is a rather new style engine from briggs and not much is available.

[mowdak1]

The crank has to be balanced, give Don at G-Team a shout he can balance the engine for you...

http://www.g-team.us/contact.htm

[crocco58]

they sell counter weight for this engine
i have it to and i'm going to get the counter weight
they are around 80.00

http://www.briggsandstratton.com/ipl/pdfs/100/MS5514.pdf

[CaseRacer969]

The link to the .pdf file is showing the older synro balance system.  This is what the AVS engine looks like http://www.odref.com/briggsandstratton/model-31/31H700-ms5174-0803.pdf.  The AVS engine has a totally different balancer.  You really need to talk to Don at G-Team.

Jack Jones
Hard Case Racing

[crocco58]

sorry about that but it look about the same as my engine