Distributor gear alignment

[Meotchh]

I need to press on a new gear to the shaft of my distributor. How do I align the gear up so the pin goes back in?

[SVOeric]

I use a 2 or 3 foot puller to remove the old gear.
I've used my press to push the new gear on, and before I had a press, I used a socket, and a hammer to knock them on. They generally aren't too hard to push on. Then I use a small punch to line the gear up with the hole.

[SvoTy]

I boiled my gear in water and put the shaft in the freezer. You had about 45 seconds to line things up.

[Meotchh]

I put the shaft in the freezer.

You ppl down south do some strange things.

[SVOeric]

It works with cams too...
been doing the freezer trick for years!

[SVORob]

I want to have frozen bored out cams

The freezer thing does work though

[dagenham]

You mean you never heard of putting a flywheel in the freezer and then heating up a new ring gear?? drops right on and your done.