[rhandwor]

I'm almost sure the pickup in the distributor had an electrical fault. To change this requires a special puller. If a shop doesn't have one they buy a rebuilt distributor. The gear on the bottom of the distributor is steel Dodge used some plastic gears in the 1997 & up dodges. I've never known Ford to use plastic gears but some rebuilder may have. This gear also drives the oil pump and you would loose oil pressure if the gear strips. The gear has a pin in it and won't go through the distributor base. If it picked up you also would need both a rotor and distributor cap. To finish the job. I'm glad they fixed the problem but do think they should be honest with you.