Distributor oil leak

[John Whigham]

My engine builder has a concern about trying to use a pertronix distributor in my 409. The distributor was supposed to be specifically for a 409 build, he doesn't agree. He says the hole in the intake is so much larger than the diameter of the distributor shaft that it is sure to leak? He said something about a sleeve was available just for this, does anyone have any experience ?

 

[62impala409]

The sleeve he mentioned is an adapter to use the regular big block/small block distributor, which is much longer and smaller diameter, in the 348/409 engines. The 348/409 specific distributor should work just fine.