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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