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    Posted: Nov/22/2017 at 7:41am
Well I finally got to work on my rambler six.   A month earlier died after a clunk noise. Right before it died I had changed the oil to a heavier weight, changed plugs, points and dist. cap. and rotor. When I pulled the cap off I saw the points were floating as the screw came loose. I thought this might be an easy fix. Wrong. When trying to reset points the dist. cam was not spinning. So I pulled the distributor out and saw the lower gear was stripped by 4 teeth. I tried to turn the dist shaft and it was frozen. So now I have to drop the oil pan, look for the metal pieces and replace the distributor. What next and Where do I get a distributor? Remember I'm old and not a mechanic by any means so go easy on me.    
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I think I have a distributor I can send you for the price of postage (probably flat rate box).  PM me your address and I will look today.  Joe
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thanks pacerman. Let me know how you want to get paid. I'll pm you my address.
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Dropping the oil pan will not be an easy task.  If you don't have a TSM get one.  Also reach out to other forum members about the easiest way to drop the pan.
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You might get lucky and have the gear teeth come out with the oil,  when you drain it.  Or fish them out with a retractable magnet (  magnet inside a flexible tube ) through the distributor hole.
Just keep track of the gear pieces you find,  and fit them back to the gear,  till you know you've got them all.

  I did this to a small block Ford years ago,  found most of the chunks in the drained oil,  and flushed the rest out by pouring kerosene thru the oil fill,  and shaking the heck out the car.
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i would not worry about the gear teeth. if you are really paranoid about them with a brignt LED flashlight down the hole turn the engine over an 1/8th of a turn at a time and make sure the teeth aren't stiill on the cam gear. if not, good to go. 

there's no where for them to go but down. into the pan. there's a screen on the pickup. they're heavy, and very little area to get swept up with. even without a screen they dont have enough area to float up into the pump.

through foolishness of my own i did the same with an oil pump, stripped teeth from the pump, towed it home, replaced the pump. drove it for another 6, 7 years, and upon disassembly 7 years later (for other reasons) a couple teeth were lying in the pan. pan was clean, no gunk to glue them down, but it's not like there's an ocean tide down there to move them pieces around.

if you get a distro from joe, you will need to fully disasemble it, get a gun brush, and clean out the bore, wire brush the shaft, etc. some delco remy models have a plastic cap in the bottom of the body that is packed with sawdust -- yes, from trees! -- that's soaked in oil. long since dried out and useless. dig it out with an awl or something. i packed mine with toilet paper -- yeah sounds stupid but it simply needs to be a fibrous web to hold oil -- soak with oil, poke the cheap plastic cap back in. it's just a dust cover.

should be a pleasant afternoon bench task. doesnt need special tools. dont force anything. take phone pics as you take it apart. 

one thing to note when you disassemble it is, assumint its a Delco Remy, under the breaker plate is a square frame with two #8 FH screws holding the thing on.then the breaker points cam lifts off. on the bottom of the odd looking cam thingie is a pin, it rides in a hole. NOTE WHICH HOLE ITS IN. they offset from each other! mark with a sharpie very well, or better yet, scrape an ugly mark with a screwdriver so when you clean it you dont lose your mark. i use a little file to file a small notch to remind me of stuff like this.

all it probably needs is cleaning and lubrication. many people have had distribs get stiff, rotate in the hole and take out the plug wires, all sorts of foolishness.

and you really must retorque the cylinder head and all htat rot before you drive it...

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thanks much to all. I needed that information since it's my first take down. I hope to get started within a couple weeks once I receive the dist.
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