this doesn't look good, is my dizzy shafted? no pun intended

went to check the gap on my points as its been running a little weird lately and cranked the engine by hand,
waited for the points gap to open at the top of the dizzy cam but they remained shut.
was able to move the dizzy shaft back and forth as per this video i took and the gap opened and closed without the cam going around..

this looks bad, what are my options?

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New dizzy time, bearing looks knackered

yup im no expert on smallblock but im fairly sure that shouldnt happen!

there should be a metal plate that screws on before you put your rotor arm on, this acts as a bearing which stops movement to that sort of degree but I would still say that is too much play!  

mazza411 said

there should be a metal plate that screws on before you put your rotor arm on, this acts as a bearing which stops movement to that sort of degree but I would still say that is too much play!  

thats probably why it still runs, car has under 60k on the clock. would have thought this would be a high miler trait.

trying to get a reply from a refurbishers.

yeah mines on 177k and is no where near as bad as that  

Think crazy quiffs do a refurb. Pretty sure mine used to have that much play and ran okay so there may be another issue.