The oil pump drive shaft should have a keeper on it to keep it from coming
out.
If you were to somehow remove the shaft, like if the keeper is missing, you
would probably have to pull the oil pan to get it all back together. A tool
is
available to move the oil pump drive to help you line it up but I pulled the
shaft out of an old distributor, removed the drive gear and use that. You'll
just
have to work at the problem for a while, but it will eventually drop in.
Steve (in N. Id.)
>From: "Mike Michels" <mmichels@socal.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Mike Michels" <mmichels@socal.rr.com>
>To: "Tiger Email List" <tigers@autox.team.net>
>Subject: Distributor installation
>Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 00:26:33 -0800
>
>Hello listers. I am having one bit of trouble that has me stumped:.
>I'm restoring the heater system (which was completely missing from my car
>and
>had to take the
>distributor out to install a heater hose elbow and I just can't get it to
>drop
>back into place. The distributor is an MSD unit and there's no apparent
>interference with anything topside. .
>
>Looking down into the oil pump, the intermediate shaft is movable and
>flopping
>over to
>one side and appears not to be centering itself when the distributor is
>dropped in. I tried to prop it into
>position, and worked the crankshaft back and forth with a wrench on the
>pulley nut, but nothing seems to work. The workshop manual says to crank
>the
>engine, but that sounds like a recipe for disaster and completely losing
>the
>distributor indexing. Does the intermediate shaft come out with a magnetic
>pickup and get inserted into the distributor shaft with a bit of grease to
>hold it and then go back in?
>
>What to do?
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