Slant six distributor drive gear

Slant six distributor drive gear

Hi Dan,

First, I think I should quote you:

slantsixdan said
EVIDENCE: For people who think reality is more interesting than anything they could make up.

That is a nice line. It would be great if you held yourself to it.

slantsixdan said
Kevin, it's difficult to tell whether you're a failure as a comedian or a failure at discerning technical drawings from illustrations, but practically speaking it doesn't much matter which kind of failure you are (and I am very pleased to make sure you're a failure at deliberately disseminating false and misleading information to those who asked a legitimate question in good faith).

Thanks, yawn.

slantsixdan said
Original poster (and anyone else who needs to do the subject repair job): Installing a slant-6 distributor drive pinion properly is not difficult. There is no tricky inconsistency in hole placement to trip you up. There is no substantial risk of getting it wrong and having it fail. All you have to do is follow the procedure—the real, actual, correct procedure that's been used successfully for nearly fifty-one years now, not the one Kevin has made up in an apparent effort to make himself feel important or something—and you'll have a successful result.

Wow. Yawn.

I guess it is a good thing that someone out there took the time to actually look at the "evidence." The evidence is that the replacement gear dimensions provided are not consistent over those fifty-one years.

I took the time in large part because of people such as yourself, Dan, who speak, write and complain, errr... whine very loudly. People who go to great length to project themselves as an expert on a subject but who have plainly not even taken the time to examine easily available evidence.

I think I have made it abundantly clear that my suggestions are for people interested in technically correct period performance enhancement through attention to detail.

slantsixdan said
Once you've done all of this to 5 or 10 Slant-6 engines, actually doing the job will take less time than it took me to type this out.

Take home lesson, people: just because someone has done something many times does not make them an expert nor should you blindly accept FSM instructions without determining whether everything has remained the same over the many decades since they were written.

Edit: Just a little follow up...

slantsixdan said
There is no tricky inconsistency in hole placement to trip you up.

Wrong. Stop making things up, Dan: "EVIDENCE: For people who think reality is more interesting than anything they could make up."

slantsixdan said
There is no substantial risk of getting it wrong and having it fail.

Wrong. Additionally, I point out in the next post that your abbreviated procedure actually greatly enhances the probability that the installation will be faulty. You attempt to exactly replicate the conditions that are present with a known gear failure -- namely the one you are repairing -- with no attempt whatsoever to diagnose the failure. Yikes! The really scary thing is that you did not see this and have been recommending and performing your procedure for Lord knows how many years.

slantsixdan said
All you have to do is follow the procedure—the real, actual, correct procedure that's been used successfully for nearly fifty-one years now, not the one Kevin has made up in an apparent effort to make himself feel important or something—and you'll have a successful result.

Dan, you are a real trip. You accuse me of doing exactly what you are doing.

My work with the distributor is to go back to first principles and MEASURE and think analytically. I should point out, too, that the OEMs agree with exactly what I am doing -- in writing. They are trying to help people work around what was an industry wide problem with faulty distributor gear manufacturing and installations.

Your solution to the above problem is to be ignorant of it -- now close to a year after having been made aware of it -- and trumpet your procedure which makes things even worse. Yikes.