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. > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list