Tracking and balancing a five bladed Hughes/MD rotor head can be a real soul searching exercise. Step one (not really highlighted in the maintenance manual) is to take a few minutes and check the flight control system from the cyclic and collective sticks clear to the coolie hat on top of the mast to ensure everything is tight, round (not elliptical holes in bellcranks), lubed, free, shimmed, aligned, and as they should be.
After all that is known to be in order.....waving some old chicken bones, hawk feathers and shaking dry handfuls of dusty dirt about the ramp while incanting ancient Medicine Man chants to the various Gods....is the second step.
Tracking and Balancing are step three....through about one hundred and three....before returning to step one to see what you overlooked....followed by a submitting more offers to the Great God of Rotor Tracking.
Other than that....tracking a Mad Dog (500) is easy as can be!