1961 Chevy Truck Harmonic Balancer

Tiny
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  • 1961 CHEVROLET TRUCK
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I recently bought some alluminum pulleys to dress up my 350 small block engine, I installed a new thwater pump pulley, and the lower crank pulley. After starting up the engine I noticed that the harmonic balancer had a slight wobble to it from front to back about an eighth of an inch, I have never noticed this before and wondered if there is any amount of wobble in the balancer that is exceptable?
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 AT 10:43 AM

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Tiny
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If the elastomer wears out than the outer ring can move. However, a slight wobble is somewhat common but if it gets excessive than it can cause drive belt issues.

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Wednesday, March 4th, 2009 AT 10:53 AM

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