Years ago, a friend mounted an
external oil pump in the distributor hole on a 12A powered formula car. Then ran
a lost spark crank triggered ignition.
The drive gear on the crank gave up
after about an hour, running 75 PSI of oil pressure.
The distributor drive gear was about
half gone. It is barely able to turn the distributor for any length of time. The
diameter is too large, (surface speed too high) and contact area too small for
any load at all. A bronze gear on the distributor drive with a spray of oil
would probably
work.
Lynn E. Hanover
There goes my smarty pants idea of how to run my
fuel pump :-(.
Back to the stupid gilmer belt.
Oh well; saves me the time and expense of
re-inventing the wheel.
nutts!
Monty