Guys

Is there a distributor that doesn't have a nylon drive gear?

I don't like nylon inside my engines.

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Slant six should have stayed in production.

Not from the factory. A few years back a batch of bronze gears was made up by some of the slant six racers, but bronze gears are really overkill for a street motor. Nylon holds up fine on the distributor drive gear for DECADES. There is nothing wrong with the nylon gear on the distributor.

Use the search function on this website to find out more about the bronzer gears and nylon gears.

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Casually looking for a Clifford hyperpak intake for cheap.

Ok, will do that.

I have a 98 ford Taurus that had nylon impeller blades for a water pump, and after 268,000 miles they simply washed away. So I got a 2000 te manufactured unit with steel and, voila!I have heat. What's weird is that I didn't blow a head gasket or something because the previous owner bought it at 155,000 miles and hadn't had heat for years. She thought the heater core was restricted. Then it started overheating at intersections where you sat &
Waited, but would cool right back off when you hit the gas.

Fords have always had potential but strange engineering to me

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Slant six should have stayed in production.

You're a funny guy. Complaints about a water pump not lasting to 300k miles and a distributor gear only lasting 30 years instead of 40.

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Joshua

Hi Aluminum Six.

There was also a thread not long ago about the distributors and drives used on the Australian Hemi sixes, and as I understood, that distributor also fit the slant six. Maybe some other member has the link? The Aussies also make a bronze drive for the Hemi 6 distributor, so if that one fits a SL6, a complete Aussie dizzy of your favorite brand may be a second solution.

Olaf.

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Aspenized

What, do they turn the opposite way or something?

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1964 Dart GT

It may be different shaft diameter. I don't have that info, so therefore the suggestion about a complete aussie dizzy. (hmm, aussie dizzy sounds like the title of some folk song band!)

Olaf.

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Aspenized

The Australian Bosch distributor is a different animal. But I think it will work with modification. Like what's easily done to a 70's HEI unit to fit a stove bolt chevrolet 6 from 1936 all the way to 1962. Grinding away a collar and slipping your old one on. Or it could be like the hemi 6 which really won't work.

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Slant six should have stayed in production.

My advice is to spend your time working on something else. I have never seen a nylon gear "disappear", but I have had ONE failure in my 400+k of Slant 6 miles driven. That was in 1999 in Baker, CA, the hottest place in the US, going uphill at 80 MPH...

You are much more likely to have a failure with the basically untested bronze gear than with the factory proven nylon.

Lou

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Home of Slant6-powered fun machines since 1988

Lou

Your advice, as always, is appeiciated. I just wanted to know for sure because I've had dealings with dizzy gears before. I blew a 5 liter ford and being a high output it requires a steel gear vs iron which could destroy both gear and camshaft if paired incorrectly

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Slant six should have stayed in production.

The Slant 6's famed durability is partially based on all production engines (to my knowledge) having nylon gears - no problem there...

Lou

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Home of Slant6-powered fun machines since 1988

My distributor gears have always lasted at least 80,000 miles. The first a gear broke when I was removing the distributor on my duster, the second time the factory gear sheared three teeth on the distributor in my truck.

So I would say that failure is not an issue. Just change once every 50,000 miles if your concerned about one leaving you stranded.

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82 D150-225/727
02 Dakota-3.9/5 speed
87 GMC C7000-8.2 Detroit Diesel/5+2

What's a good source ? I'm limited to as is eBay stuff, some with points.
I had an 81 that had a dual pickup and no vacuum advance. This was located on the air cleaner with a computer of sorts. My dad changed it out with a vacuum advance model and there was no difference. I can only assume the computer was for cold starts.

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Slant six should have stayed in production.

I get my dist. gears from NAPA. I just order 3-4 at the time so I'll have some spares. You have to redrill the hole for the rollpin on any distributor gear your get.

That dual pickup distributor was for lean burn. That computer controlled your advance curve no matter whether the engine is hot or cold. I just removed all of that from my truck and replaced it with a conventional distributor.

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82 D150-225/727
02 Dakota-3.9/5 speed
87 GMC C7000-8.2 Detroit Diesel/5+2

So it was a pollution device or an economy device? It may sound stupid but I can use that computer if it saves miles, I'm building a feather duster and I want to get it over 40 mpg. If its emissions then naw...

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Slant six should have stayed in production.