Machineman, I am not sure I follow what you are saying. You say the clearence on the distributer gear, are you refering to clerence between the dist gear and the gear on the cam or what???? By the way, it is a non roller cam and the gear is the iron gear that came on the distributer. Again, I only ran the moter about 10 min. between 2000 and 2500 rpm. So.. it seems like it should have been getting
oil to it. I can't start it back up again untill I get a new starter in a few days because the stock starter I was using is toast. I just hate to run it very long if it is not getting
oil to that gear, don't want any metal shavings in a new motor....... Do you think it would be safe If I pre lubed the cam gear again and then ran it for another 10 to 15 min. to finish breaking the cam in and then pulled it again to examine???????