Quote: I thought you were a Mechanical Engineering student... The clamp is positioned so there is near zero clearance between the bottom of the clamp and the top of the intermediate shaft gear. When the gear tries to ride up, it is stopped by the clamp.
Ah, that makes sense... I figured the slop was in the distributor shaft and not the oil pump drive, I could see the drive shaft trying to climb the gears like you say though..
