Oil in Distributor..!Help!

Harylufa

Harylufa

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Hello everyone!

I realized that there is some oil in the distributor. And I saw that the oil travels right through the vacuum hose.
I noticed that the car has trouble starting and tends to stop at low rpm.
I took the carburetor out, remove it from the car, clean it, change together but just followed.

Remove the distributor because I thought they were the points and I found this loss of oil out of the camshaft. It was full of oil the vacuum pipe.

It is possible that oil from the engine and then the engine does not operate properly?

What to do? please I really will thank your advise and ask me if you need more info.

Hary
 

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1. Wiggle shaft at back of distributor and see if has a loose fit
2. Remove adjuster assembly of vacuum brake, the huge nut at top, and see if there is a piston in there...I'm guessing that if the piston were to be left out, the distributor would suck up a lot of oil.
 
Hary, there should be some oil in that area. The timing cover should have a drain hole at the bottom so the area should not fill with oil. Make sure the hole isn't blocked. The rear bush should have 2 holes (from memory) to allow the bush to be lubed. There should be a drain hole at the bottom. Make sure it isn't blocked.

Make sure your engine isn't overfilled.

There should also be a drain hole in the bottom of the distributor, (again from memory, I'm sure I'm not imagining this stuff). Check that one isn't blocked too.

It might not be relevant, but it would probably be worth cleaning up the gasket face on the timing cover it has a lot of blue paint on it. You have to rely on that hole at the top to provide the vacuum to allow the vac brake to release.

Mart.
 
Harry,

I like Mart think you dont really have a problem as there should be oil in that area.
NOW there should be no oil inside the distributor or the vacuum line its self...

I never thought of the vacuum sucking oil when piston is removed like Bruce mentioned?????
 
Hi Amigos!

Mart, I can not find the hole you mention below, where is it?

Hary, there should be some oil in that area. The timing cover should have a drain hole at the bottom so the area should not fill with oil. Make sure the hole isn't blocked. The rear bush should have 2 holes (from memory) to allow the bush to be lubed. There should be a drain hole at the bottom. Make sure it isn't blocked.


Bruce! The piston is there inside. And the huge nut is very tight.

Bubba! In high rpm motor make a strange noise.

I am going to have a video so you can see and hear what happen when car is on

I will back with news

Thank all for your time

Hary
 
I didn't imagine it, I just checked a spare crab distributor and it has a drain hole.

Here's a pic:

crab01_zps66cb9b1f.jpg


And one showing the holes for lubricating the bush, which proves you need oil around the area.

crab02_zps870ad651.jpg


Mart.
 
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I'm at work and do not have a front cover to look at...but the drain hole, from memory, is at the bottom of the groove in the cover where you can see a puddle of collected oil.
Take something thin and pointed like a nail (clavo! How did I remember that, of all things!) and poke around. I think the hole is slanted to the rear about 45 degrees. It is clearly plugged!
 
Amigos!
I attach a video showing a screaming penguin sound of my engine. Just after I finish accelerating you can hear the "screaming". I think that the vacuum hose is suctioning oil. Try to hear this strange sound carefully. The other strange sound are my kids, sorry but they wanted to be filmed!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmljuU1dRQ8

Thank you,

Hary.
 
Well...Poke out the drain hole, remove the manifold connection to vac line and plug or tape up the hole. Go for a ride and see what happens. It should run well enough with vac disconnected. I'm at work with my boss 20 feet away, could not safely listen to your penguin!
 
Mart,

Now I understood! I checked it and it is not blocked.

Bruce: thanks for posting the picture. It is very illustrative.

Is there any possibility that the camshaft seal is broken?? I am worried about the important oil leakage!

Hary.
 
Bruce Lancaster said:
1. Wiggle shaft at back of distributor and see if has a loose fit
2. Remove adjuster assembly of vacuum brake, the huge nut at top, and see if there is a piston in there...I'm guessing that if the piston were to be left out, the distributor would suck up a lot of oil.
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Mart said:
Hary, there should be some oil in that area. The timing cover should have a drain hole at the bottom so the area should not fill with oil. Make sure the hole isn't blocked. The rear bush should have 2 holes (from memory) to allow the bush to be lubed. There should be a drain hole at the bottom. Make sure it isn't blocked.

Make sure your engine isn't overfilled.

There should also be a drain hole in the bottom of the distributor, (again from memory, I'm sure I'm not imagining this stuff). Check that one isn't blocked too.

It might not be relevant, but it would probably be worth cleaning up the gasket face on the timing cover it has a lot of blue paint on it. You have to rely on that hole at the top to provide the vacuum to allow the vac brake to release.

Mart.
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BUBBAS IGNITION said:
Harry,

I like Mart think you dont really have a problem as there should be oil in that area.
NOW there should be no oil inside the distributor or the vacuum line its self...

I never thought of the vacuum sucking oil when piston is removed like Bruce mentioned?????
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V8COOPMAN said:
Bruce is slick...he does know some stuff! DD
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Bruce Lancaster said:
Well...Poke out the drain hole, remove the manifold connection to vac line and plug or tape up the hole. Go for a ride and see what happens. It should run well enough with vac disconnected. I'm at work with my boss 20 feet away, could not safely listen to your penguin!
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Jajaja! I am not crazy, I think the problem is that there is a penguin in my engine!! Be careful, I don't want you to be fired!
 
The bottom exterior vent is for air flow! The patent actually discusses it thus: It is place where it is to get maximum airflow from the little storm kicked up by the rotating advance mechanism, and the flow is largely to get ozone out of there because it can make the air conductive.
The provision for ventilation is most import

ant. Ozone in appreciable quantities is formed

incident to the arcing of contacts. If this reaches

too high a concentration, the atmosphere within

the distributor is subject to ionization and elec

tric discharges through it may occur. ‘Placing

the ventilator in proximity to the centrifugal control insures a constant circulation of air.

end of quote from the patent...I think a secondary role of that vent is to get condensation out of there. But at any rate if any great amount of oil gets to THAT hole your distributor is about to drown!
 
I started the video and realised I had the sound turned down on my computer. I turned it up and could hear the Who's "My generation". I thought, blimey, Hary, you could have turned the radio down before making the video. Then a voice said "BBC" and I thought I wonder how Hary is able to get the BBC down there.

Then I realised I had BBC radio2 open on another window on my computer but had forgotten about it.

Doh!

Mart.
 
It seems like the timing gear chamber gets some oil flow from the oil pressure bypass valve. There is also a plug behind the cam drive gear for the valve chamber feed tube that is supposed to stop the flow at the front and can be removed for clean out. They sometimes leak but most generally after an overhaul when the plug has been removed to clean out the tube and not reinstalled properly. It's normal to have oil in the timing gear chamber but is shouldn't be flooding. I've seen a few engines that had oil pouring out the front oil pan vent due to flooding in there.
 
YES our flatheads do leak oil. some more than others, there is no cam seal per say... the front cam bearing feed oil the front main bearing and then the crank is filled with oil from the front main, and from the crank it feeds to rods, the center main is feed the same way from the cam to the main and to the rods ,...ALL under oil pressure.... each bearing in the system loses some oil at each point, and returned to the pan ,, ready to go again ... clear as mud, right... the timing gear is not feed... Henry was big on splash it is part of the splash system, and so is the disturber, yes that hole in the top of the bushing / bearing area you were ask the check for lose in the rear of the dist. is part of the splash system as are the water pumps oiled, in the timing gear area splash system .... I'am beginning the think you have to much PRESSURE in the crank case area, Have you put on a NEW oil fill cap ?? maybe a chrome one ?? OR ... a splash of mud, road tare, dead rodent ,,, and have plugged the vent, at the right front corner of the oil pan, its a small triangle shaped looking down, with a small vent hole to the back side ...should be clear, open or with steelwool in the opening ?? so it will vent ?? Maybe that"s where your squeal is coming from ?? sorry.. too much bla..bla....... OLD.....BILL
 
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