Reply to "My Weekend at Willow Springs"

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Well, I pulled the distributor out today. It was extremely difficult to get out. The double roll pins held. The gear however didn’t do so well. The gear had broken teeth. There appears to be slight damage to the cam gear so I guess I am going to have to change the cam.

The bottom of the distributor shaft has several hairline cracks around where the oil pump drive shaft inserts. The top of the oil pump drive shaft looks damaged and doesn’t look centered in the hole. I have an oil pump prime tool that will not engage the oil pump drive shaft so there is definitely damage in that area.

So the question is what happened. The motor only has about 3000 miles on it. The oil pump was new, cam was new, oil pump drive shaft was new. If the oil pump sucked up something where did it come from. Could the shaft at the bottom of the distributor have cracked first and seized in the hole?

I guess I am going to be pulling the motor out…

11/7/095:09 PM

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