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I had the same problem, cost me a motor. Distributor gear chewed down to nothing, I drained oil, flushed with kerosene, replaced oil, ran for about 20 min, and changed again. Motor still spun a bearing at 10 hours and ruined bloch and a nice lunati crank. Pull the motor, and tear it down, be sure to pull the cam bearings as behind them will be full of metal, and flush or replace oil cooler.
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I had the same problem, cost me a motor. Distributor gear chewed down to nothing, I drained oil, flushed with kerosene, replaced oil, ran for about 20 min, and changed again. Motor still spun a bearing at 10 hours and ruined bloch and a nice lunati crank. Pull the motor, and tear it down, be sure to pull the cam bearings as behind them will be full of metal, and flush or replace oil cooler.
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You don't want it to eat up the cam. I am going through the same thing. I had an engine builder properly set the height and check timing. Charged about an hour and a half. Engine only had 15 hours on a new custom built motor. We are hoping it was a height problem at installation. I had billet cam, so we just replaced the steel dist gear.
I'm going to pull the oil pan to get the shavings. You dont want those chunks cloging up the oil pump.
I'm going to pull the oil pan to get the shavings. You dont want those chunks cloging up the oil pump.
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What cam are you running is it all one piece billet roller or two piece then it has a cast iron gear You can buy teflon gaskets "shims" from jegs or summit you need to adjust the distributor with the shims to get the right gear height and make sure you can move the shaft up and down a little if you can't move it up the distributor is too far down.
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it is a cast iron crane gear, thanks for all the help!
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the dist gear needs to be matched to the cam you are running, only the billet steel solid rollers require a bronze gear, adding one to a std cam would not be a good idea...if you are having issues with the correct gear to cam set, either the cam is junk or dist height way off...Rob
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the dist gear needs to be matched to the cam you are running, only the billet steel solid rollers require a bronze gear, adding one to a std cam would not be a good idea...if you are having issues with the correct gear to cam set, either the cam is junk or dist height way off...Rob