Bronze dist. Gear

I just bought the steel gear only from Hughes. I have yet to drive the clevis pin out of my old intermediate shaft and replace the bronze gear that's been on there for about 7K miles. It does have some wear, but was still working well.

I've found that the bronze gears last longer if you run the collar on you distributor shaft to keep the intermediate shaft from climbing up away from the bushing that's pressed into the block.

I was going to buy another bronze gear and have it cryogenically treated to see if that helped reduce wear even more, but ended up switching to a new cam and am running the special steel gear instead.

Changing the gear is a simple process of driving out the cleavis pin, removing and replacing the old gear and re-installing the pin.

If you are using a new cam, you can run the special steel gear offered by Hughes. If you are having good luck with wear on the bronze gear you can run a fresh one of those as well.