Hoping someone can help me out
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Hoping someone can help me out
Okay, so I'm about at my wits end here. I have an LT1 that was rebuilt by a machine shop and abandoned. Good deal for me to pick up, or so I thought. And now on to the the annoyance that has been plaguing me. The distributor keeps getting filled with oil causing the car not to start. I've changed the seals 3 times in the timing cover, but it keeps happening. It goes together and everything looks fine. Car runs fantastic for a week or so and then it doesn't start again. If I pop the cap off, oil comes out, clean it up and the car runs great again. As you can imagine though, this has become a major annoyance. So has anyone else ran into this problem? If you have, I'm dying to hear the solution...
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OP, you need to see if you are possibly getting any excess crankcase pressure. See if you are getting any puffing out of your oil fill. I can't really imagine this type of scenario. It's pretty strange.
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Shbox is right. These are not on here. I will check into the excessive crankcase pressure. Like I said, everything is new, but you never know. It's a real wth type of situation. I just don't understand how oil could get into the distributor cap like this... With new rings and such in the block crankcase pressure shouldn't be an issue though.
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