Hey y'all!

The inner flange on the oil pump drive gear on my 1988DL Is no longer attached to the gear and is just flopping loosely on the shaft. If I pulled the gear off the shaft and remove this flange completely will the timing belt run true? If I leave it on I am sure that it will eventually damage the belt. I have looked online for a new drive gear and have not been able to find one.

Thanks for all the help!

If everything is not too chewed up, you might be able to re-stake it in place.

i'll have to pull it off and try, thanks!

Surely there are a million good second hand ones available from members here with the dreaded cracked head syndrome and hence mucho spare bits

I looked thru the classifieds here and didn't see any but if anyone has one, I would feel better about replacing it than trying to fix the old one!