I used a solid pin in my inline . when I got the parts from Techtonic Tuning to bolt my Digifant 8 valve head onto an ABA block. Tough little pins, those. On Jun 8, 2017 3:44 PM, "Dennis Haynes" <d23haynes57@hotmail.com> wrote: On the Vanagon gas engines this pin is a solid, hardened pin. It is press fit in the shaft and drive floats on it. This allows for the drive to slide to take up any misalignment between the drive piece and distributor shaft. The pick-up coil kits include a new drive pin. I can see a roll pin wearing through and failing. My memory is hazy but I think the this distributor also uses a solid pin. If so it is solid for a reason. If it should be a roll pin why not get the correct one so you won’t have to worry? Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of Neil N Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2017 5:26 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Distributor Shaft Pin Hi all. This is for a distributor from a different VW engine but Vanagon gas engines have the same pin arrangement. Figured someone here has done this. Has anyone replaced the pin holding the distributor shaft to drive gear with an SAE equal size roll pin (split sleeve type)? If so, has it stayed put? Image showing roll pin installed: https://goo.gl/photos/oKNY3UFQ2oEodJVQ8 I can't see the centrifugal forces being that great but have to ask; I have trust issues. The original pin holding shaft to gear was a tight fit. The roll pin (split sleeve) I replaced it with was just slightly larger OD. Using a medium sized ball peen hammer, it only took medium light taps to set in the pin. Neil.
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