While checking my timing yesterday I noticed that my harmonic balancer appears to be wobbling slightly at idle.... it looks like it's moving forward & backward a couple mm as it spins. If I run the engine at about 1500 rpm or higher the "wobble" goes away (approx... I need to have someone else look at the tach while I look at the balancer). Is this normal at all, or a sign of a bad balancer?
My engine does shake a little bit at idle, but I don't think it vibrates any worse than most 5.0's I've seen, and it's a little out of tune anyway. It seems to run okay, other than that it's been getting pretty terrible gas milage for the past couple weeks. I haven't had much time to figure out the cause, but it's obvious that it's running rich just from the increased raw gas smell.
Oddly enough I randomly found a guy's website whose balancer went bad right after I noticed this about my own... his crank snapped and destroyed his entire longblock so of course now I'm REALLY parnaoid. I'm going to make sure all the balancer bolts are at least snug when I get a ride home later...
I don't want to move the car until I find out if this is normal, but I really need to use it later today if at all possible, so any quick responses would be greatly appreciated.
Hopefully this is totally normal and you guys will have a good laugh at my lack of knowledge... I'm crossing my fingers anyway.
My engine does shake a little bit at idle, but I don't think it vibrates any worse than most 5.0's I've seen, and it's a little out of tune anyway. It seems to run okay, other than that it's been getting pretty terrible gas milage for the past couple weeks. I haven't had much time to figure out the cause, but it's obvious that it's running rich just from the increased raw gas smell.
Oddly enough I randomly found a guy's website whose balancer went bad right after I noticed this about my own... his crank snapped and destroyed his entire longblock so of course now I'm REALLY parnaoid. I'm going to make sure all the balancer bolts are at least snug when I get a ride home later...
I don't want to move the car until I find out if this is normal, but I really need to use it later today if at all possible, so any quick responses would be greatly appreciated.
Hopefully this is totally normal and you guys will have a good laugh at my lack of knowledge... I'm crossing my fingers anyway.