distributor teeth sheered off
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distributor teeth sheered off
My truck just recently died on me while driving. I pulled the distributor after some investigating on the 400 engine, and found that three teeth were sheered off on the distributor shaft. I tried taking a telescopic magnetic to see if I could reach any debris, nothing. Would this debris work its way down to the oil pan since I did a lot of cranking troubleshooting the initial problem? Or am I in for a dismantling of the front of the engine to try to retrieve the missing teeth. And did I possibly damage anything cranking the engine troubleshooting not knowing that there were fragments of metal floating around.
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From: Benton County, MN
distributor teeth sheered off
This happened to me on my cleveland a while ago. Only I didn't lose any teeth, the roll pin that keeps the gear in place sheared off. Put in a new pin and called it a day.
