loose crank pulley?

96superneon

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2001 Mazda Protege MP3
First of all i'd like to thank everyone who uses and posts on this forum, i'v saved a lot of money using the diy thread. Yesterday i changed my valve cover gasket and put new spark plugs, wires and ingition coils. My car is running top notch now!!! But i hear a ticking that increases with rpm and is definitely coming from the belt/pulley area. Looking down there, it looks like the crank pulley is wiggling a little bit. What do i need to do to fix it?? or could it be something else?
 
If its wiggling you would feel the vibrations from it. The ticking could be a number of things from a bearing in a pulley water pump lifter or rod bearing.

I'm not sure of we use a harmonic balancer but it could be that as well
 
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