Originally Posted by Otto Skorzeny
The shaft doesn't rotate in the block, does it?

No, the whole distributor housing moves a little from the motion of the vacuum advance. It would take about "forty-leven years" to wear that aluminum housing enough to cause problems. Think about aluminum pistons running in a cast iron cylinder block for years with minimal wear, under much worse conditions.
Jerry

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