Distributor filling itself with oil

dusterbd13 said

Gee, thanks rusty! Really helpful!

Everyone else:
Distributor was torn down completely yesterday. No burrs found on shaft, but polished with 2000 grit anyway just for kicks. The i side of the housing had no passages, nor and obviously missing seals or damage. Nowhere to put permatex, nor anywhere to drill vent holes like dui reccomended with the chevy distributors. No smoking gun i could find.

The pcv valve not stuck, and pulls significant vacuum through it. No blowby or crankcase pressure noted with the oil fill cap. Tested via putting a paper towl over the open oil fill hole and revving the engine. It didnt blow away like id expect with an issue.

Keep the ideas coming yall. This one baffles me.

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Hey, I'm a cheapass bastid, but even I don't buy the cheapest knife in the drawer. You know me. I always try to inject some humor here and there. Have you checked to see if you have a lot of blowby? Is the PCV valve stopped up or not working somehow? If it's really the distributor at fault, I'm not sure that's something you're going to be able to repair. WHICH HEI distributor are we even talking about here? As usual with a lot of these type threads, we have ZERO to go on, because once again, a member refuses to get a picture so we can all be on the same page. There are a LOT of different distributors out there marketed as "HEI", but we're supposed to know which one you have. It doesn't work like that. Throw us a bone and we might can help more.......although as I said, I don't know what CAN be done if the distributor is at fault. Is this something that just started after everything was running fine for a while or has it been happening ever since the distributor install?