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In June after 3 hours of cruising he stbd engine rolled back about 40 rpm then 100 followed by500 then instantly quit.20 mins later I started that engine and it ran for 20 mins then quit again it did this repeatedly until at destination.
The drive gear must be removed to pull the shaft toremove the coil.
Unless the oil pump turns the camshaft it HAS to be that way!Ricardo said:"In most circles, the camshaft gear would be considered the "drive" gear, and the distributor gear would be considered the "driven" gear. "
Jeff
The camshaft "Drive" gear turns the oil pump's "Driven" gear. Period.
Jeff
But if I hold up a distributor, point at the gear, and say "what's that", a reasonable response might be "That is the drive gear for the distributor." Meaning that is what drives the distributor shaft which turns the distributor (and also the oil pump).
I looked in the antiphon valve and noted that the steel ball was at the end of the brass piece as if there was pump pressure on the ball. I took a dental tool and fished around and took out quite a lot of debris, considering the small space in the antiphon valve..The ball then went back to where it should have been with no pump pressure.
So the question is...............could this debris be the culprit that allowed my engine to run for 3-4 hours and then quit and after a short wait, the engine could be started and ran again but this time for only about 30-40 minutes and then quit again???