The continuing saga of tracing down an oil leak. Before I buy special tools to drive out the pin that holds my distributor together, I thought I would mention on thing I thought of today: As far as I could tell, when I took out my distributor, there was no oil that had leaked through to the inside of the distributor; the inside of the distributor cap was dry as a bone, and I do not recall seeing any messy oil stain etc. around where the dust cap covers the hall sensor, etc. Does this suggest that the oil leak is not coming through the inner seal but through where the o-rings are? Thanks.

Darius

I have had a small amount of oil coming through the dist. shaft on my 88 740 for some time. When I remove the cap there is always a bit of oil in the bottom and some on the dust cap. If yours is dry I think your shaft seal is OK. Others may agree or disagree with this.

If oil gets out past the large O ring I suppose you have made sure that crankcase pressure is OK along with replacing the O ring.

BTW where did you get the shaft seal? I may order one for mine.