At 20:43 2005-12-28, you wrote:

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

Oh hell, I was going to mount a hydraulic prop governor on the unused apex seal oil pump pad...(same drive gear)...
well, .. guess I'm going to have to re-think that one.
Thanks Lynn

Mike McGee, RV-4 N996RV, O320-E2G, Hillsboro, OR
13B in gestation mode, RD-1C, EC-2