Ok! Let's beat this to death! Yee-haw!
When I finished my 302 rebuild and I was reassembling my engine, I dropped the distributor 180 degrees and it actually started....barely and sputtered a bit and after scratching my head for a while and making adjustments over and over, I got mad and just spun the thing completely and viola! No more problems.
I went through the whole distributor gear thing when doing my carb swap. The standard bronze gears disintegrate in about 5 minutes under the steel gear of the cam. I tore up 2 gears before I realized what was wrong! Good thing the chips fell harmlessly down and came out with the oilchange. I had to get an aftermarket steel gear from FMS.
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91 GT Carb conversion, holley 600 double pumper, edelbrock performer intake, FMS "C" drop springs, march 1000 underdrive pullies, crane 1.7 roller rockers, GT-40P headers, bassani x pipe, american thunder catback, FMS 4.56's, msd aL6, trunkmount battery, A/C eliminator kit, 3000 stall tci streetfighter, AOD with transgo kit, A+ servo, 300M hardened lockup shaft, kevlar bands and 28,000 gvw trans cooler, 3 core radiator, 300 lbs stripped with a full interior
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