I have a tall deck belt drive and front drive distributor setup laying around. My plan was to use them on a 468" Indy 360-1 245cnc dual 1050 on E85 setup with an external single stage oil pump. As I feel it is a going to be a while until I finish acquiring all the parts and doing all the work(only have block, heads, crank, pistons, intake and carbs right now) I am contemplating putting it on my w2 352 in my Duster with a remote water pump reverse cool setup. My question is being the 352 is an internal oil setup and I want to use the front drive distributor am I going to need to fab up a oil pump drive hold down from an old distributor to keep the gear from lifting out of the pump? I made up a cap for the existing hole but was wondering about this....any one using a similar setup with any experience?

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Yes you will need to fab something to hold the drive
down in the pump... something simple will work

I actually expected a response from you...lol Any ideas....does it need to be fabed from a distributor or do you have another suggestion?....

I am thinking of buying one of the cheapo (45) billet distributors from Ebay and cutting it in half...then using my 1/4 disc to cover the center hole......

I think Andy has something for this.

I am sorry I do not know who Andy is....do you have a link or contact info?....

I thought of something this simple but was concerned with wear at the contact point of the rod and gear creating unwanted debris in the engine....that is why I thought of cutting a distributor so I could utilize the shaft....the collar would keep the shaft from pushing out and my disc would seal the top to keep outside debris from getting in.

Big block version

Do you make for the small block?

I cut the head off a stock dizzy , cut the shaft to length and made a Delrin plug ( like nylon ) for the top.
15.00 and about 1/2 hour of work.

awesome..probably the way I will go too!