I adjusted the valves on my 2000 Accord I4 tonight and when I removed the distributor cap, I noticed a little bit of oil near the bottom and that it had seeped between the cap seal and the distributor. Any ideas what's causing this? Bad cam seal?

 

i have this problem too on my 95 accord lx. What causes this?

 

oil leaking past the seal in the dist. shaft

 

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have you guys fixed this problem? just noticed it on mines yesterday... 100% sure its the reason im having oil loss ;\,,, so far only inf oi got was replace the O ring, anything else that needs changing along the way?

 

I got the same problem with my H22. Got myself the o-ring, and I'll replace it over the weekend. I posted a similar topic last week, and most of the replies pointed towards a bad o-ring. Try to replace it first (2 dollars), then work from there.

 

it is a common probllem - take out dist. and replace the small oil seal just right at the base of the dist. It is easy work and cheap.

Jim

 

The o-ring is wrong.. If the oil is inside the distibutor it is the shaft seal. Honda doesn't sell them, so take it out and find the number on it and have someone at a specailty seal place cross reference it. Its probably made by NKO, but do that and then tap it in and you are on you leak free way. And it should only be about $20 or so with shipping instead of buying a whole new distributor.