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

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2008, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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.


It's a "screw" to pull oil up. It's all large-ish clearances
and a long distance so it doesn't move much oil.

Some months ago I went through the distribs in my Hornet and
Rambler.  And I'd been through them before -- so I thought. THIS
TIME I really got in there with gun brushes, really got a lot
of crud out. THey simply weren't staying oiled.

Our cars, and "new" parts, are getting really old. In 1998 I
bought a "new" distributor fgor my 304ci V8 and within a few
weeks it "spun" -- the whole distributor actually TURNED and
whacked timing. When I got it apart it was simply gummed up;
an old rebuilt, sat on the shelf, lube hardened.

Same thing happened to the distrib in my Rambler. A super
thorough cleaning, scraping and wire brushing, then oil, it
spun like ball bearings, where before a spin with the fingers
woudl go a few turns. Big difference!

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