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Any tips for removing the distributor drive gear?

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Hey Chaps,

I'm building a 2E engine and I need to swap the distributor drive gear from from the 2E onto the DX distributor.

Having already given the pin a pretty good smack with a hammer and punch and it's not budged at all, I'm wondering if anyone has any tips or tricks to get it to move?


Cheers, Si.

 

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I had trouble with this and asked a tuning firm the same question, the reply was "hit it harder, it'lll go". I did mansge to do it but wasn't really happy about bashing it so hard, to me pressing it out would be a better way, possibly take it to an engineering workshop.

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Glad to hear it. sort of…

I have hit this so hard that I think I need a better quality punch to hit it any harder. My brother has a hydraulic press I can use, but I'll need a better punch.

So once I them both off, one way or another, can I reuse the pin? If not, does the replacement pin need to be quite so stout?

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IIRC one of mine had a roll pin, and you had to use a roll pin punch has a dimple on it so you don't swedge it out binding it more…..

Stout, it does control the timing and if it shears….
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I've still got the old pinion here and if it's any help the hole is 4mm, or a 4mm drill fits fairly snug but a 4.5mm won't go, so you need a 4mm punch.

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Wow. …  those suckers really are in there good. 

I ended up drilling. 3.5mm hole through one, then still couldn't punch the remainder out. Tried a 4mm drill. Snapped the drill. Had a beer & paced the garage swearing and went inside … 

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I think what you need is a short 4mm punch and something really solid to rest the pinion on, plus an extra pair of hands to hold it steady. I seem to remember using a 2lb hammer and getting tio the point where I was thinking sod it, if it breaks it breaks. Once it moves and you have the hollow to locate the punch you're there.

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Well, I can honestly say that job took a wee bit longer than I had anticipated.

I finally drilled them both out, got the gears off and swapped over and used a spring steel roll pin and some Loctite (not that it looks like going anywhere) and just as I was patting myself on the back, and waiting for the Loctite to dry I noticed that the TSR spacer ring for the distributor does not fit over the drive gear.   :$Also swapped to Vaccum Advance to an early twin port jobby that has advance/retard.

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sifty said


Do you have the dimentions for the TSR spacer ring or a link to where i can get one?

Thanks
Well, I can honestly say that job took a wee bit longer than I had anticipated.

I finally drilled them both out, got the gears off and swapped over and used a spring steel roll pin and some Loctite (not that it looks like going anywhere) and just as I was patting myself on the back, and waiting for the Loctite to dry I noticed that the TSR spacer ring for the distributor does not fit over the drive gear.   :$Also swapped to Vaccum Advance to an early twin port jobby that has advance/retard.

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