Distributor gear swap.
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Distributor gear swap.
Hello guys, I am swapping a steel gear onto my 1990 5.8 distributor to go into a 94 5.8. My question is how hard is this to do. I don't have a gear puller, a really don't want to mess anything up. Would I be better off to take both distributors to a shop and have them do it? Thanks,
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It's simple enough with this distributor, remove the drift pin in the gear with a small punch and then attach a 2 or 3 jaw puller to the gear and crank it off of there. Reinstalling the gear is done with a press ideally but can also be done with a hammer and appropriate sized socket, and obviously you want the hole in the gear to line up with the hole in the shaft so the drift pin can be re-installed. This sound difficult but if you line it up initially the gear tends to go straight down the shaft.
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It's simple enough with this distributor, remove the drift pin in the gear with a small punch and then attach a 2 or 3 jaw puller to the gear and crank it off of there. Reinstalling the gear is done with a press ideally but can also be done with a hammer and appropriate sized socket, and obviously you want the hole in the gear to line up with the hole in the shaft so the drift pin can be re-installed. This sound difficult but if you line it up initially the gear tends to go straight down the shaft.
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It's simple enough with this distributor, remove the drift pin in the gear with a small punch and then attach a 2 or 3 jaw puller to the gear and crank it off of there. Reinstalling the gear is done with a press ideally but can also be done with a hammer and appropriate sized socket, and obviously you want the hole in the gear to line up with the hole in the shaft so the drift pin can be re-installed. This sound difficult but if you line it up initially the gear tends to go straight down the shaft.
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