Asking for someone who has done distributor
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Asking for someone who has done distributor
I am starting my 350K tune up . It is a 1989 740 GL with a B230F N/A engine. After an engine wash down I notice some of my oil leak is coming from the distributor. This engine has the horizontal dist. mounted on the rear of the cam shaft. I have never removed the distributor and suspect the seals are gone so have also purchased a seal kit. What I am asking is do I suspect to find any other seal when I remove the dist. body. By the way this is the model that does NOT have a pick up in it as the timing is done by the flywheel sensor. Thanks.
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#4
There are three "seals":
1. small oring on tip of shaft
2. larger oring for base of dist
3. INTERNAL seal on shaft.
The third one is the only one that requires any skill to change. You just put it in a bench vice and use a drift and hammer to knock out the pin to change it. Scratch some marks or use paint or whatever to make sure you get the key back on properly. Last thing you need to do is put it back on 180 degrees off.
I suggest pulling the valve cover and checking your valve lash and putting in a new gasket and using silicone on the corners where the gasket flexes. You could have a valve cover gasket leak that you THINK is coming from your dist.
1. small oring on tip of shaft
2. larger oring for base of dist
3. INTERNAL seal on shaft.
The third one is the only one that requires any skill to change. You just put it in a bench vice and use a drift and hammer to knock out the pin to change it. Scratch some marks or use paint or whatever to make sure you get the key back on properly. Last thing you need to do is put it back on 180 degrees off.
I suggest pulling the valve cover and checking your valve lash and putting in a new gasket and using silicone on the corners where the gasket flexes. You could have a valve cover gasket leak that you THINK is coming from your dist.
#5
There are three "seals":
1. small oring on tip of shaft
2. larger oring for base of dist
3. INTERNAL seal on shaft.
The third one is the only one that requires any skill to change. You just put it in a bench vice and use a drift and hammer to knock out the pin to change it. Scratch some marks or use paint or whatever to make sure you get the key back on properly. Last thing you need to do is put it back on 180 degrees off.
I suggest pulling the valve cover and checking your valve lash and putting in a new gasket and using silicone on the corners where the gasket flexes. You could have a valve cover gasket leak that you THINK is coming from your dist.
1. small oring on tip of shaft
2. larger oring for base of dist
3. INTERNAL seal on shaft.
The third one is the only one that requires any skill to change. You just put it in a bench vice and use a drift and hammer to knock out the pin to change it. Scratch some marks or use paint or whatever to make sure you get the key back on properly. Last thing you need to do is put it back on 180 degrees off.
I suggest pulling the valve cover and checking your valve lash and putting in a new gasket and using silicone on the corners where the gasket flexes. You could have a valve cover gasket leak that you THINK is coming from your dist.
#7
OK just finished this phase . Did the distributor seals today and the old ones were brittle and broke into pieces. There was some oil in the cap and down the back of the block. Cap and rotor were bad but it still ran good but I had to replace them. Did wires too and when I pulled the plugs they all looked great and the gap wore to .032 but they were very clean. I had 90K miles on them and the cap/rotor. OK so now I have timing belt , valve adjustment , cam and crank seal and then transmission flush.
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