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Originally Posted by craigs69

I wonder if there in a concentricity issue between the shaft bore and the teeth on the distributor gear. That would take out a soft bronze bushing real fast.

The bushing is not bronze. It looks like some kind of powdered iron. It's black. I wonder if it was supposed to be carborized and a batch got through without it because the shaft has literally no wear on it. Only the black coating was shined up. The shaft was straight as can be and the wear on the gear teeth is uniform around the gear so that indicates that it wasn't a gear issue to me. It's just like the bushing was really soft. Heck, I've seen bronze bushings wear the shaft out, and bronze isn't very hard.