Missing vanes from B&S flywheel

[sidevalve44]

Please see the attached photos. Two vanes are missing from the flywheel (B&S 3HP) probably due to some hammer & chisel merchant trying to get the flywheel off in the past.
This begs a couple of questions:
1) Does it matter ? The engine is part of a pump-set so there’s a large amount of reciprocating mass to iron out any possible vibration. Plus I imagine it happened some time ago and probably ran OK for a while.
2) If it does matter; what is the best and cheapest (I’m not intending spending a large sum of money on this project!) way of remedying it.

Any ideas ?

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[wristpin]

It will cause some imbalance and a little reduction in cooling but that said I’ve seen a lot worse running with no signs of distress. If the engine runs ok with no undue vibration I would just Keep Calm and Cary On!

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