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Thread: Do I need sealant on an SBC Distributor Gasket?
          
   
   

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    Quote Originally Posted by skids72
    Funny you should ask... when I replaced my distributor with an MSD with new gasket, clean surfaces, and all. I've got a pesky oil leak around the disty that I've learned to live with. I have the hold down tight but there's always oil there. Granted this is a BBC any ideas how to stop this leak or do I have to continue living with it?

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    Chris
    Did you leave the o-rings off the dist. housing?
    I will bet you are asking what the heck is he asking?
    On many after-market distributor's there one or two o-rings at the bottom of the shaft next to the gear.
    If it is a stock H.E.I. there won't be any of the o-rings.
    You may have a height problem with you distributor or intake.
    In other words your intake is to tall,or your dist housing is.
    It may not be flat either.
    The intake or dist. housing.
    Last edited by erik erikson; 10-23-2006 at 04:17 PM.

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