How many Mopar owners does it take to screw in a distributor?

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someone had put a high pressure pump in after rebuild and "I guess" the factory allen shaft did not like that

The machinist I had built my engine "the cheapest, new, young startup" asked if I wanted a high pressure or high volume oil pump installed, another, never heard of such a thing.
I probably gave him the deer in the headlights look and said Yes.
He probably slapped a high pressure pump in. To this day, if I start it the pressure slams my gauge over the 100lbs. marked gauge until it warms up the drops off to about 80.

It`s a wonder the seals aren`t blown out. The truck is just a rotting fixture in the back yard, returning to the stage it looked like when I first bought back 32 years ago. It needs a whole better cab, I just can`t seem to part with it, but it needs to go, but it will not be given away, therefor I`ll probably own it till I croak

 

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"Don't try." What I used to do with Chev EG was get it as close as I could, then just bump it until the pump drive engaged, then bump it back around "on the marks." If it wasn't where I wanted it, move it a tooth and try again. Once I finally learned that, it never took me more than once or twiice to "get it in." I don't remember Ford being any different. I have not set up many.

I DID have a 289 shear off a pump drive, someone had put a high pressure pump in after rebuild and "I guess" the factory allen shaft did not like that

Nope...they do not alright. Lol Arp or itll snap. That's exactly what happened to the one I built when I was 20. If I recollect correctly...they take a 1/4 socket to turn.
I remember turning it a little at a time till the distributor would sit down.
Odd fires ..yeah that's it's own ball of crap.