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Fordman9303
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Every three weeks I'm replacing a distrubutor because the gear at the bottom of it snapped any idea why?
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Is the distributor hard to turn when you take it back out?

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High flow oil pump???

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Tom Renzo
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Pull the pan clean it out and install a new PUMP.Also better check the CAM GEAR. That just might be TOAST ALSO!!

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OR IS IT THE RIGHT GEAR TO CAM
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what type of cam do you have and what type of gear are you putting in
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I doubt it'd break that fast if it were a cast dizzy gear. Has to be something else that's putting strain on the gear itself. What kind of distributors are you putting in it?

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three weeks is alot of time, daily driveing ive seen them go out in 3 days normally to a week.
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Wrong cam for the dizzy your putting in or wrong dizzy for the cam you have

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