" From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> " " On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: " " > if you're, or anybodyis worried you can swap the bushing over from the Rambler delco too! " > I had a GM hei with a bad bushing and needed a quick fix. " > I knocked the bushing out of one of the AMC delcos I had and it went right into the hei. " > It was not as long as the gm bushing, but diameters were the same. " > I put the gm hei in a boat that cruised at about 3500-4700rpm. it ran for quite few years on that amc bushing with no issues. " " Oh I'm not insisting that there IS a problem, I'm just " curious... the shaft on distributors I've taken apart has " a spiral groove (about 2 turns/inch) that draws oil up the " shaft. The groove is in the shaft itself. Spin it backwards, " no oiling. not a problem then. chevy and amc dists spin the same way; it's the cams that drive them which spin oppositely and thus requiring opposite-helix gears. you can't just spin a dist the opposite way anyway; it'd throw the vac advance off and raise merry hell with the centrifugal weights. ________________________________________________________________________ Andrew Hay the genius nature internet rambler is to see what all have seen adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and think what none thought _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list