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The oil pump is directly below the distributor and they are driven on opposite ends of a shaft that is driven by a bevel gear off the cam shaft. The mil distributor is shorter. It does not go down inside the engine as far as the civi dist. You have to modify the drive shaft either by shortening...
Oh and the gear driven cam spins backwards on the 75M from a civi 361. IIRC, I had to switch drive gears from the military to the civilian dist/oil pump drive shaft.
Jeff
I used the RB distributor with a spacer from Summit to help get the distributor up out of the hole created by the large mil version of the water pump housing. It gives you more room for the vacuum advance bell. The eldelbrock sure works good on my V100 but it sure sucked on my Roadrunner. I went...
Cad-Gage did something similar, I'm sure you know, to fix the problem of water getting in around the filler. You might consider adding a ring on the plate to give the cap a step to go around to keep water that gets under the cap from getting to the filler.
Jeff
My Bulldog is going next week. The movie takes place in CONUS circa 1977. Typical movie, they focus on details yet miss the big picture. Watch for MERDEC painted M35A3s.
Jeff
Mine is an original M548 with sump pumps and skirt mounting holes. I got some skirts off a M113 only to realize the M548 is longer. The A1's didn't have swim capability.
Jeff
Crap, mine shows the "new" grey Cummins. It was the only M916 of the ones I looked at that showed that engine. Is there anyone who can go over there and check it out?
Jeff
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