Re: Oil spill from the dist at accel

[rll <rlipinski3@xxxxxxx>]

Subject: Oil spill from the dist at accel

Rich Kinsley  '64 Polara 4 dr 318poly w/goodies

The first time I "got on my throttle" it smoked a bunch because oil came
out the base of the dist housing at the clamp. After messing with the
timing and tightening it down really well the problem seemed to go away.
However it did this again when I hit it hard on an on ramp. I am
wondering if I could have too much oil in the engine. My dipstick had to
be recalibrated as the new tube was about 1&5/16ths shorter. I did this
by two methods, first I measured the difference and secondly I added 4
&1/2 quarts only. The two methods seemed to agree as it showed full.

Another cause could be a bad o-ring on the dist but it was all new. I
have the PCV on the valve cover and don't imagine I have a pressure
issue. Any thoughts????



HELLO LIST

seems to have obviously high crankcase pressure

our charger does this....you have to be in second gear pulling hard before
it starts doing it .

we are pretty sure we have a collapsed land or head on one piston.

a real bone headed deal...we had it apart for another problem and found
one of the pistons had failed....

replaced the one piston and put it back together with the other 7 time 
bombs.

hate it when my ferrets could have made a better decision than i made.

i would guess most over pressure problems are rings...a pcv valve is a 
pretty
low volume deal....3/8" hose or so max...

i had ...in fact still have ...a six pack challenger, that when we first 
got it,
would constantly break the sheet metal intake gasket along the strength 
seams...

we cured the problem with 2 breathers on each rocker cover.

when we tore the engine down all the top rings fell apart as we pulled 
the pistons
out ot the bores.

so that's my ferrets' best guess....and i'll stand behind it.....

rob in phx


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