I posted here a few weeks ago to determine the origin of the distributor min my car. After quite a bit of reading, I have determined that the tachdrive cross gear was incorrectly modified for a nylon button, that is the hole in the end of the gear was drilled larger, and the button put in it, not the housing. The mainshaft and cross gear assemblies, which appear origional, show very little wear. The housing itself even looks good inside. Can I continue to run it this way, or what? Thanks in advance, Dan
66 Distributor
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Re: 66 Distributor
Dan-----
That's one of the wierdest things that I've heard of. I suppose, though, that this was someone's idea of how to add the button without modifying the housing. Perhaps, it really was a clever idea. In any event, if it's been in there for quite awhile (which it, apparently, has) and the gears are in good shpe, that's a testament to the fact that it works. Beyond that, I don't see any reason why it shouldn't work. In fact, some aftermarket cross shaft gears have a brass button installed on the end of the cross-gear. Although I've never seen a nylon button installed this way, I see no reason why it shouldn't work equally as well as if the button were installed in the housing.
I would think that the biggest problem was drilling the cross gear to accept the button. But, someone else surrmounted that problem already.In Appreciation of John Hinckley- Top
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Re: 66 Distributor
Joe - I had some discussions with Dave Fiedler at TI Specialty this year at Bloomington and he modifies the cross gear shaft to put a thrust button/end play control button on the gear, and machines the housing on the ID to accept, so there is no external awareness of this modification. He has been doing this for a long time with complete success. I am not saying he did this to Dan's distributor, but, it sounds similar....Craig- Top
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