[Soul Engineering]

did you open your dist to see how much oil was in it?

He meant, did you take the distributor cap off to see how much oil was inside the distributor?

 

[Soul Engineering]

won't crank* my bad


no but i'll do that today. why could that be a reason if you don't mind me asking, i just don't know too much about mechanics

If a large amount of oil is present in the distributor cap because of a leaky internal seal, it will not run properly, and most likely won't run at all.

i.e. this:

This Prelude would crank over but not start because of the oil in the cap. Generally though, when they get this bad, they leave a puddle of oil under them.