Intermediate Shaft Wear

Here’s from another forum “After 7,000 plus miles and hundreds of dragstrip passes, here is what the Crane melonized gear looks like after use with a Howards hydraulic roller cam.”

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I would like to know if that gear was run in a HV/HP pump! I really would like to have a better pump than a stock one, but the warning on the Hughes website is concerning, still.