Re: [Amc-list] Part numbers again - rotor, condensor, points

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Yeah, it's theoreticaly a problem as I forgot the groove is indeed on the shaft.
Again, One could cut a new groove in the opposite direction then plug the original with JB weld or silver solder?
I remember having a problem with some 4.0Ls pumping oil up into the dist itself.
IIRC, I experimented by lengthening the groove down below the gear thinking it was meant to keep the oil from crawling up the shaft! I have no idea of why, but I think it worked as I don't recall getting any of those vehicles back for the problem.
  Now, in retrospect I have no idea of why that would have worked if it was inded a groove meant to move the oil up that shaft? :]
  That was a long time ago.

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > if you're, or anybodyis worried you can swap the bushing over from the Rambler 
> delco too!
> > I had a GM hei with a bad bushing and needed a quick fix.
> >   I knocked the bushing out of one of the AMC delcos I had and it went right 
> into the hei.
> > It was not as long as the gm bushing, but diameters were the same.
> >   I put the gm hei in a boat that cruised at about 3500-4700rpm. it ran for 
> quite few years on that amc bushing with no issues.
> 
> Oh I'm not insisting that there IS a problem, I'm just
> curious... the shaft on distributors I've taken apart has
> a spiral groove (about 2 turns/inch) that draws oil up the
> shaft. The groove is in the shaft itself. Spin it backwards,
> no oiling.
> 
> Most of my old distribs died from lack of oil; crudded up grooves
> and dry bushings... probably took 10 - 20 years to die though.
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