Oil Pump & Camshaft Gear Oiling Modification

volaredon said

Along the "super indestructible" theme, I did acquire a steel (cast iron) distributor gear, in an old Napa box/ they still have /6 distributor gears but under the same PN as I have, they have regressed to nylon. I'd like to find 2 more of the metal versions. (Not home right now to check) but I think the PN of the metal version is/was DG404.

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That is the correct NAPA part number. Even though I have at least one of these, I don't think I would use one. There is not that much load on the dist gear, that I feel it necessary. The nylon gears last several hundred thousand miles,in "road" type vehicles. I would rather have a nylon dist gear fail, then the metal dist gear. Nylon gear has zero chance of taking out the cam gear, unlike a metal gear.