Thread: MSD steel distributor gear part number?
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Old 07-22-2005, 12:48 PM
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Question Be carefule
If you bought your MSD distributor new, did you check the spec for the dimesnion between the bottom of the distributor and the top of the gear? If that dimension is not within spec you WILL have excessive gear wear. It happened to me.
In my haste I put the steel gear . Approx. 5 miles later I broke the gear on the cam. == Total rebuild.
I'm happier now because I have a much stronger motor after the rebuild but I wouldn't want to do it over again.

Lew
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