heres what i started with
an hour later, and some of the womans red nail polish to freshen the emblem, heres what i got now. shhhhhh no one tell her i raided the nail paint!!
and this pic is a test. can you tell me what DOESNT belong in this picture?? i removed the intake to fix what i thought was a rear manifold to block gasket leak. well, that was NOT the source of my oil dribble!
and i here by nominate dually dave as the blue rtv king. man dave, was that 2 tubes or 3 you used on the intake gaskets?? LMAO!!!
I dont use the end gaskets they supply, just rtv.
Is that a washer jambed under your distrib? OOOH and that plastic oil pres line, That just makes me cringe, Oh the fun of cleaning oil off of everthing, including the inside of the truck.
That grille looks pretty too.
yep, thats plastic oil line, its not leaking YET, but its getting replaced with copper anyway. and yes, thats a flat washer wedged under the dist base, between the gasket and the base. letting a little dribble of oil out and down the back side of the block wish i had seen that BEFORE i pulled the intake.
There's a gasket in the distributor? Maybe that's where all my oil is going to. You think the washer under the distributor clamp is bad? Try my truck out, I repulled the carb and there is what looks like a sparkplug stuck in an intake runner. How it got there is anyone's guess. So much for that intake. If I'm going through the trouble of pulling it, an aluminum 4bbl setup is going on in its place. Sure wish I could track down the previous owner... have a few holes in the backyard just right to hide him...
-WD
If I didn't build it, it ain't mine.
1949 Dodge B1B-108; 1969 D100-128; 72 Super Beetle; and a bunch of others...
can you fish the part out of the intake and save the hassel pulling it? youde be surprised the stuff i have dropped down an intake with the carb off. i have gotten in the habit of as soon as the carb is off, a rag goes over the holes. spent too many hours magnet fishing and removing intakes cause of little crap falling in. and the dist base has an o-ring seal on it. if its bad, you will leak oil unless you got one heck of a good pcv system. but some still gets by reguardless.
wish i had seen that BEFORE i pulled the intake. 
You think the washer under the distributor clamp is bad? Try my truck out, I repulled the carb and there is what looks like a sparkplug stuck in an intake runner. How it got there is anyone's guess. So much for that intake. If I'm going through the trouble of pulling it, an aluminum 4bbl setup is going on in its place. Sure wish I could track down the previous owner... have a few holes in the backyard just right to hide him...