Well, my typical bad luck continues. Got the Unilite distributor all cleaned up and converted over to a screw down cap with HEI terminals, and the last thing I had to do was put the new gear on it. Right off the bat, I see the Unilite roll pin is much smaller than the AMC. No problem I figure, I'll just drill the distributor shaft out to accept the bigger roll pin. Well, turns out the Unilite hole wasn't centered in the shaft, so now the holes in the gear don't line up. So, in desperation, I put the gear on and drilled thru the gear and shaft together. Now the hole on one side of the gear is oblong.
The gear seems plenty tight, but I'm just not sure how much load the oil pump puts on it. I was thinking about just filling the slop in the hole up with JB Weld. I was going to try to weld the hole shut, then redrill it, but my welding skills are far from "surgical". I guess another option would be to drill a completely new hole, like 90 degrees from the original one, thru the gear and shaft at the same time. My experience is it's really hard to start a hole on a round section like that though, even with a drill press and vice. The bit keeps wanting to veer off to one side or the other.
What do you guys think?
