Harmonic balancer runout - what's acceptable?

[dhardison]

When I had the 454 in my Nova I noticed that the factory balancer had a little wiggle to it. I thought it was the balancer, so I picked up a Fluidampr balancer, but it did the same thing. I guess it could just be the balancer, but it's off enough to physically see the balancer move when the engines running.

Since I'm tearing the 454 down I threw a dial indicator on the balancer to check runout. I know these aren't the correct "terms" to use but I found the "diameter runout" was 0.010" off at worst (as shown here):
http://www.danhardison.com/454teardown/DSC02918.JPG

"Lateral" runout was 0.015" off at worst (as shown here):.
http://www.danhardison.com/454teardown/DSC02917.JPG

Do these measurements seem abnornal?? I'll throw the dial indicator on the crank snout itself when I get the chance to see if it's the crank or the balancer.

Thanks,
Dan