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Old 12-26-2007, 02:20 PM
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Question oil!

would a O ring that is broke on the ditributer blow oil out on the engine? and cause it to work snotty
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not sure which o-ring you're talking about.

If oil is getting up in the distributor - yep, could cause some issues.

If it's the gasket between the distributor and manifold, a failure could cause oil leakage, but I don't think it would result in engine performance issues.
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Yes and it could burn your truck up if that oil get someplace real hot.



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