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Distributor question
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Keoke
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If you are referring to the drive gear on the dizzy shaft,it has a drift pin in it that can be driven out to free the gear.
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Steve, I have attached a couple pics from the shop manual. I haven't had mine apart in awhile but I believe the two sections (the main dizzy and then the lower tach drive housing) show just slide apart. If the lower section with the bottom drive gear has come out then it must be reinserted with the correct timing. The book (pics) show this. On the earlier dizzys the slot that you can see after it is installed should be positioned as the pic shows. They call this the 22 position. the slot is in the center of the shaft so that each half of the shaft on each side of the slot is the same size. On later dizzys the slot is not in the center of the shaft and the lower side of the shaft is smaller than the top side of the shaft. But if yours is a BN1 believe they are equal. Hope this helps.
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Vette, the 100 uses a different arrangement than the 6-cylinder cars. The shaft extension is connected to the distributor with a roll pin, in place of the offset drive dog used on the 6-cylinder distributor.
Catfood, before you remove the extension, scribe a reference of some sort on it to allow putting it back exactly the same way. As the gear has 13 teeth, it needs to be properly reference to the upper distributor components. My suggestion would be to use the rotor as your reference.
Catfood, before you remove the extension, scribe a reference of some sort on it to allow putting it back exactly the same way. As the gear has 13 teeth, it needs to be properly reference to the upper distributor components. My suggestion would be to use the rotor as your reference.
