Actually, just got myself thinking. Seems like you were talking about your truck being kinda down on power and sucking gas just before this happened right? I wonder, if its possible, that you might have skipped A tooth or two initially (or a distributor tooth) which brought the truck into a weakened state only to then have it let go the rest of the way later on and thereby killing it the rest of the way?
!...hate to see what the cam gear looks like on that AMC--probably just like the dizzy gear!.........................................................................................................I found the nylon govenor gear in my '81 G10 van's TH350 looked just like that,when I yanked the govenor out!..bought it for 500 bucks with a "blown transmission" back in 1990--after I replaced it with a used govenor,I drove it another 40,000 trouble free miles..................................................................................................Though I worked auto parts counters for 20+ years,I sold very few distributor gears--about the only vehicles that "ate" them seemed to be mopar slant sixes,they were nylon gears--but even those were not hot sellers....I was surprised to see how many gears Dorman now sells for lots of engines,I didn't think enough of them failed often enough,to have much demand for them.....
Why have you not cut the Cat. out, again?
