Guys, I'm still confused??? The original question was: "Anyone on here know if the Ranger roller cam is a steel billet cam and would require a bronze dist gear?"
It was replied that: "Uh, the distributor gear is on the aux shaft......... .............c am has no gear other than (the belt) sprocket."( ) mine.
That is accurate. If the cam was billet or not the it doesn't matter (at least on a 2.3 Lima engine). There is no gear on the cam that drives the distributor at all. There is a completely different Auxiliary Shaft (in the block, not the head) that drives the distributor. Changing the cam has nothing to do with the Aux. shaft which remains the same and compatible with the distributor gear used with the previous cam. Other than a common timing belt that turns both shafts they are competely separate from each other.
Now, are we talking about a Ranger Roller cam in a V-6??? That would be completely different. The engine size/type was never stated and at least here 99.9% of the time when Ranger Roller cams are discussed here it relates to the 2.3, 4 cylinder (Lima) engine. Maybe this is where we are confused?