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RE: Relax...sounds like the oil pump drive shaft...
By John - 09/20/2002 4:38:20 PM; IP 142.177.79.236
I agree with Dan, even though you've said you think it's meshed properly. I do it a different way...Put in the distributor the way you have, then rotate the engine CW with a socket wrench on the Harmonic Balancer Bolt while exerting down pressure on the distributor. Take the plugs out and this will be easier. Also, sometimes those distributor seals can take more force than you realize to drop into the manifold. An easy way to check is to drop a small ruler down to where the block supports the distributor (not where the block provides a bearing for the rotating shaft) and measure to the top of the manifold. Then measure your distributor. You can then tell if there's a problem with the manifold or not (which I doubt). Finally, when you removed the distributor, the oil pump drive shaft may have come out of the oil pump. There's supposed to be a press-on wwasher on the shaft to prevent this, but maybe it's missing. If the end of the shaft is resting on top of the oil pump, the shaft will be up to high and may be preventing the distributor from going in all the way. In this case you will have to remove the pan and the pump to set things right. Personally, I suspect the new distributor seal just takes more pressure to insert than you suspect.
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 Just had this problem yesterday... -- Darel, 09/21/2002
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 RE: This was factory problem as well ! -- Ray, 09/24/2002
 RE: New Intake install -- Ryan, 09/24/2002
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