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Dan,

You are the man!

Because there has been no "noise" on the internet lately about "eaten" distributor gears OR wiped out cam lobes, I've assumed these problems were laid to rest.

The Blue Oval Performance/Crane steel gear sounds like the hot tip to me. I get a bit peeved about problems like this, you would think a gear compatible with all cams would not be a difficult item to design, it's not rocket science anyway!

My observations about the distributor gear & cam lobe wear problems are: the problems seemed to arise with the shift of parts manufacturing in China; not every cam or every distributor gear had a problem. So is it a quality control issue? Perhaps not every part had the same quality of metal, or the same grade of heat treat? Seems that way to me. If it were a design issue the instance of trouble would have been greater. But this is all a moot point. I don't read of problems any longer, so I assume the situation is better.

Oh, and by the way, yeah I meant bronze. Thanks for watching my back. (my excuse is old age)

George