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grease in distributor

(quoted from post at 15:58:09 12/23/11) hello , still trying to get the miss out of my super-a. pulled the dist out to replace the seal and to check the shaft play, my question is where does the grease go to when you pull the plug on the side of the dist ? i don,t see a hole in the shaft bushing for the grease to get to the dist shaft. keith
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Sounds like maybe someone already has replaced that bushing, and neglected to drill the hole.
 
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hello , still trying to get the miss out of my super-a. pulled the dist out to replace the seal and to check the shaft play, my question is where does the grease go to when you pull the plug on the side of the dist ? i don,t see a hole in the shaft bushing for the grease to get to the dist shaft. keith
 
Didn't IH use a Delco-Remy distributor? The Delcos AC used had a long one piece solid bronze bushing in there. The cavity of the dist. housing around the bushing was filled with light oil through the little hole, then plugged. The oil seeps through the porous bushing.
I've seen grease fittings put in there, mostly on IHs. Did IH do that originally?
 
hello it does have a long brass bushing in it, ih did not put a grease fiting in them because people would put to much grease in it keith
 
Bushing was porus and there should be a hole in the distributor housing oppisite the plug for any extra grease to exit on out.
 
I know if it is an IH distributor,You pull out thr threaded 1/8" pipe plug that is near you ,install grease zerk,when you pump the grease in,it will "squirt"out the opposite side of the distributor thru a small hole opposite the plug that is facing the block.

(This is taken right out of the IH manual,and this is how I do mine.)
 
If it IS an IH distributor,and it DOES NOT have entrance and exit holes in the bushings,something is "amiss". like was posted earlier,if the bushing HAS been replaced,it might not have been drilled ???????
 
Mike no hole was in the bushing, they were made so the grease around the bushing would leak into the bushing and to shaft. If a grease passage was straight to the shaft some people would have grease into the top of the distributor.
 
If you put too much grease in the zerk in the adapter housing it can force grease through the inside of the bushing to get inside the distributor.
 
I will say it is a poor design in every way.
The open hole is pretty bogus, the open chamber with a shaft running through it, is OK, but there is no provision to deal well with lube. The bushing should have been a sealed ball bearing with a Zerk fitting and port directly to it. and a waste grease port out the bottom. Maintenance in the book would state lube annually. (if over lubed it would just squirt out the bottom.)
But they do last 30 to 50 years the way they are! Jim
 
(quoted from post at 10:27:11 12/24/11) I will say it is a poor design in every way. . . . But they do last 30 to 50 years the way they are! Jim
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Hard to call it a poor design when they typically lasted 30 to 50 years. I have never found one with enough wear to affect anything.
 
(quoted from post at 09:08:04 12/24/11)
(quoted from post at 10:27:11 12/24/11) I will say it is a poor design in every way. . . . But they do last 30 to 50 years the way they are! Jim
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Hard to call it a poor design when they typically lasted 30 to 50 years. I have never found one with enough wear to affect anything.
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He is an engineer. He always has to be thinking about how you could make it better.
 
I have found 3 of them, I just do not like poor
design for no reason. (like bronze bushings in a
Heater/defroster fan in an inaccessible location.)
Jim
 
That is a fine complement. I wish there were more
Designers/Engineers doing that. I am a Product
Design Professor, (not a titled Engineer) but I
teach Engineers real world hands on things
punctuated with theory. Jim
 
Jim the way you would build it may be a better design. I'm guessing there would be more bearings and parts changed over the 30 to 50 years from poor maintenance than bushings were though. Merry Xmas
 
(quoted from post at 11:30:02 12/24/11) That is a fine complement. I wish there were more
Designers/Engineers doing that. I am a Product
Design Professor, (not a titled Engineer) but I
teach Engineers real world hands on things
punctuated with theory. Jim
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Whenever I hear about desingers/engineers I think about my grandpas neighbor. He worked at a place that made toasters and designed one that would never wear out. It would cost a bit more to build, but you would never need another one. They told him to go back and make one that would only last a few years so they could sell more...
 
Another great one is the "engineer" WITH A DEGREE that my dad WITHOUT A DEGREE is training at work. They were making a rubber mold that was big and fat on one end and really thin on the other. Rubber shrinks at different rates based on thickness. The "engineer" fresh out of college didn't know how to calculate the shrink so he drew up plans for the mold based on average shrink rate. He told dad they could get this mold in, run some parts on it to see how it shrank then send it in to get retooled. My dad said, why don't we just order it right the first time???
 
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