Bottom timing gear for crank how loose

Dana67Dart said
Doesn't the vibration damper wedge the gear into place between it and the crank?

Also on a 1.5" dia circle you have to move the gear 0.013" to get 1 deg of rotation.

0.003" is about 0.229 deg

In my book that is negligible

Here’s the amount of play it has

So I hit the woodruff couple times with a hammer on the front end and now the play is gone so I guess problem solved