Well I got some washers, pulled the distributor and when I started to check on the play I noticed something odd.....

Holding onto the bottom of the drive shaft and checking the end play I found that it had hardly any end play at all. But when I grasped the rotor end of the shaft and wiggled it, it definately had play. But when I did this and watched the drive end of the shaft, the drive end didn't budge at all....

So I have wear somewhere inside the distributor itself. Can this be repaired or am I looking at getting a rebuilt distributor (or sending this out to be rebuilt-it's the original distributor)? I did get a dial gauge on it and measured the play - it came to about .055". Obviously enough to send the rotor into the top of the cap :/

Any Ideas?

David

P.S. It's a Chrysler distributor- and while the FSM shows a exploded diagram of the insides, the FSM doesn't say anything about disassembling/repairing the shaft/centrifugal advance assembly...