Saml

Thanks, you've been incredibly helpful. There's no reason to think that diesel will drip from the leaking distributor into the oil sump is there? this could be hazardous I'm told. Cheers S

Yeah i can see some sort of band / seal at one end, and there are two bolts at that end, but there is an (oil?) filter in the way which i would have to take off to enable me to get to the bolts. I've change fuel filters before but never an oil filter, fairly new to this whole thing

Thanks bizzard I've had a look and it's not an easy job at all by the looks of it.

Hi I've a 1.5 BMC engine in my narrow boat. The fuel distributor is leaking. Fuel is gathering at the very bottom of the distributor and forming into drops. I've tried tightening a few bolts and searching for he leak but no luck. I've a feeling the seals / gaskets have gone. I can't afford to buy a reconditioned distributor so have placed a small tray which catches the fuel. But the starter motor, which is directly under the distributor is now probably full of fuel. How much of an issue is it to get fuel in the starter motor, will it do any damage? Many thanks