A couple more pics/questions from 2N teardown

With the front of the tractor removed and the oil pan dropped...a few things are curious to me:

Whenever I've messed with the distributor, I've noticed that I can get mine to mount with the rotor in the correct position and 180 degrees out of phase. It should only go one way. The odd thing is, in the correct orientation, it has slop. With the front of the tractor removed, I could play some more with it. The "slop" is equivalent to about one number on a clock...for instance, I can wiggle the rotor from about 12 o'clock to 1 o'clock even with the distributor fully mounted. Now that I can see the gear driving it...it's obvious. The slots have been wallowed out from 72 or 73 years of operation. Can this cause a gross timing error? I would think yes...but how critical is it?

The distributor also has a crack in it. I can't imagine how it would have enough force to do that...but it did... any thoughts here?

Also, with the pan removed. There appears to be a free-floating washer/spacer behind the crankshaft pulley. My finger is on it in the photo. Two questions...A...should this actually be sort of floating...maybe to protect the seals from rotating shafts/pulleys? B...when things go back together, if this is OK to be free floating...which side of the pan does it go on...should it be on the outside towards the pulley? Or on the inside towards the crankshaft?

Thanks guys.

The offset connection has plenty of force available. On mine, it broke one of the tangs off the distributor rotor (I learned the hard way to check my son's work a little more closely -- he's just learning.)

Inside. Oil slinger to take a bit if work off of the seal. When running, as with any gear train, the slop is largely taken up by the force of the drive working against the driven. Maybe not ideal but OK.

I saw the "slinger" in the exploded parts list. I guess I was looking for something more complex than a thin, oversized washer