Thanks so much everyone for your responses they are greatly appreciated I have yet been able to spend any quality time with the engine block or chassis because the temp outside has been so inhospitable. Tried to free one of the old girls from the ice (-4040) - a lesson in futility. But I digressed; the balancer was underneath with the oi pan cover or on the floorboards of the 955C poorly warped in a plastic bag and placed in a 5ga. bucket. It dose need some cleaning and de-rusting but after pulling out the old oily sticks, leaves and debris is spins freely. My question, now that you emphasized "NOT" to put the balancer in, in its current condition, which condition is that; because it is really rusty and dirty or that it may need rebalanced due to its bad storage?
The 955E (-8263) is not in as ruff a shape and is still for the most part in one peace and not in buckets of puzzles and parts like Old Bones here (-3563). The guy said that -8263 just quit ???? He said it just died it turned over but wouldn't restart. No CA-CHUNK, Clink, Clank unwinding of tightly wound springs or strange sounds came from the engine - it just quit.
Old Bones came with newly rebuilt Pony engine (needs a few more gaskets) and reworked undercarriages; Kinda like "One Piece at a Time" the country song by Wayne Kemp and recorded by Johnny Cash in 1976 "What model is it? Well It's a 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 automobile". The bottom rollers are all in great shape but some are greasers and some are oiled - no hill for a stepper
Here is a good, bad and ugly picture of -4040 Frozen ("let it go, let go ... HERE I stand and HERE I stay")! Well until spring anyway.