TheMTazzi

hey guys noticed my crank pulley has slight wobble to it and reaserched that it is a common problem for our cars. my question is simple,it is my daily driver and at the moment i dont have the money to fix it, so can i drive it? i mean i read alot of people not knowing this existed driving it for years without any problems but should i chance it

TCW

It's normal. My 2006 LS2 crank pulley has been wobbling for 40,000 miles now.

Tom

One Kick

Just changed mine out at 43k miles, it had a slight wobble and under inspection I could see that the rubber between the hub and the pulleys looked lt was deteoriating.
I was also getting a loud noise under acceleration. Hopefully after all the work i did the noise and wobble are gone.

TheMTazzi

how much mileage did your car have Tom? 40k or so? mine has 44k on it and it just started wobbling.

Gearhead Jim

As noted, most of them wobble a little. When it gets worse, that can cause other problems and may be a sign it's about to separate.
Ours has had a slight wobble for 89k miles but no changes, so still good.

There is a GM bulletin about how to measure wobble, it's a PITA because you have to remove the belt and use a dial indicator in the groove. The other surfaces are not precisely machined and are not reliable for either a visual or dial indicator check.

Good luck, be careful but don't panic.

EVRose

Could you possibility make a video of it and post it here?

TheMTazzi

Yeah i take a video guys, i mean its not that noisey imo and i tried moving left to right up or down and it wasnt loose, and i even checked the bolt and it was on there pretty tight. i should have a vid up tomarow its too dark where i am at now to c anything

TheMTazzi

ehhh heres a video of the pulley. on the video it doesnt look/ sound to bad, but as i said i checked the bolt and tried moving it sode to side and it wouldnt budge ao idt i have to worry but just keep an eye on it

http://youtu.be/BYARs7Awo4k

sevinn

That didn't look too bad to me and I didn't hear any chirping, but I'm on mobile so take that with a grain of salt since I can't really hear anything on it.

EVRose

I hardly saw any wobble at all. Actually, I didn't see any. You have nothing to worry about, IMO.

morepwr

I wish mine only wobbled that little! I would not worry about that one bit.

Mine wobbles way more than that and I plan on changing it soon.

TheMTazzi

word ty guys for your input. whew well i just found out my friends 06 has the same problem. however his was wibbling like crazy and he has 140k on it hahaha. his mechanic which is the corvette mechanic at our chevy dealer said it was probably doing this for 100k so in truth i am not worried about plus read that on 05s its much more of a thing to worry about. whew and my *** is saved once again

EVRose

There were a small number of early 05's that had a problem with the crank bolt getting loose. Totally different problem. The balancer used on the 05 is the same one used on every other year and it's junk.

Not So Fast

My 2011 GS does about the same, until it starts "chirping" it will stay the way it is, unfortunately
All these years and GM wont/cant fix the problem
NSF

Cor430vette

Yours is not wobbling....it looks like mine if not better...forget about it and drive it like hell.

Here is mine... I did a ton of research on it and I am simply keeping an eye on it but from what I found out this is normal and can last essentially forever like this. I will not fix it until the belts start chirping etc and the wobble increase.