Me too. I pick up my reman today at NAPA. $50, including core. It's 50% of the cost of buying the whole assembly, so I'm good with that price.
If belt misalignment was the cause, then it sure took 49 years in order for it to get there, so it's hard to say that that really is a problem. .07" may be within "allowable" variance for the distance, but I'm not an expert on belts at all. I'll work on alignment when I go hook it back up and look at some options to get it a little closer.
The slight wobble of the pulley I am least concerned with, but if you guys want to see it:
The problem is that these pulleys are not available anymore. The only Saginaw pulleys that are available now are for the 383/440/Hemis. You can use them for the small block, but you have to buy a $20 spacer kit. Getting sort of non-original at that point.
They are supposedly easy to bend, but I'm afraid I'd make it worse. I called a machine shop and they didn't sound excited at all, and said that ".030 is about the best we're going to do."
