Slant 6 distributor replacement advice?

Posted by D Sherman [72.47.9.228] on Wednesday, August 03, 2011 at 18:14:25 :

It looks like the notorious plastic drive gear has probably stripped out on the slant 6 in the mine tour trolley. Naturally it's the middle of the season and they need it all the time. I've never replaced a distributor on a slant 6, so before I mess it up, I'm asking for any advice anyone can give me. Any tricks to getting the old one out? Is it easy/tricky to get a rebuilt distributor back in the right way so the timing is correct without having to futz with it? What about just replacing the plastic drive gear? I've been reading on-line about there being various versions with the pin hole in different places, and some say you have to drill your own hole in the distributor shaft to match the hole in the gear (?!?!). Anybody here actually replaced a slant 6 distributor drive gear and can tell me how to do it right? Next step is to pull the old one and verify that's the problem.

Follow Ups:

• I just did this in my hot rod - Bruce in BC 21:10:53 08/03/2011
  • Thanks! But I think my old gear is on wrong. - D Sherman 22:37:11 08/03/2011
    • Ok I went out into the shop - Bruce in BC 00:03:57 08/04/2011
      • Thank you - D Sherman 00:31:10 08/04/2011
        • Re: Thank you - mannyc 09:14:12 08/04/2011
          • Re: Thank you - D Sherman 12:03:24 08/04/2011
  • OF course - Bruce in BC 21:12:41 08/03/2011
• Re: Slant 6 distributor replacement advice? - Randy on Long Island 19:27:39 08/03/2011
• Re: Slant 6 distributor replacement advice? - Steve G 19:16:32 08/03/2011
  • Re: Slant 6 distributor replacement advice? - Randy on Long Island 19:32:06 08/03/2011

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