<VV> oil in distributor (20 year storage story)

[Louis C. Armer, Jr.]

Did you ask/e-mail DALE first?

Chuck Armer
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At 02:45 PM 4/29/04 -0400, you wrote:
>  This is a new one for me. I started to get an oil leak that put oil on
>the sheet metal under the distributor and due to the air flow while
>running, a little hard to tell exactly where it came from. I assumed the
>crank pulley seal was bad (102,000 miles). I replaced the seal (it was
>cracked, the rubber very hard). This did not solve the problem. I then
>assumed the seal under the distributor cup had failed. Upon removal of
>the distributor, oil drained out of the cup when tilted. There was some
>oil splatter inside the distributor cap
>  The distributor was rebuilt by DALE a long time ago (but not too many
>miles). I have never found any quantity of oil inside the cup of any
>other distributor. Who has a similar experience and a cure? I have an
>NOS cup I could swap when I get the ambition.
>Getting all the information is most of the solution.
>MIKE KOVACS
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