[colelmt]

So I took off my disrtibutor cap and there was a bunch of oil in there. This explains the oil stains i am leaving everywhere i drive.

I have a had an ongoing problem of not being able to rev ~past 6000 rpms.

I had my car dynoed and it was only making ~80whp and my tuner said vtec wasnt crossing over.

could this large leak be the cause of everything?

 

[shoebox_civic]

sure could.

 

[v8killaz]

yea it actually could be.

 

[RonJ]

could this large leak be the cause of everything?

Fix the leak and go from there.

 

[colelmt]

It's probably leaked a 1/2 quart of oil in ~500 miles from the distributor

 

[colelmt]

So, I am guessing this internal distributor leak could be causing too low of pressure and vtec is not being able to cross over because of that?

 

[RonJ]

So, I am guessing this internal distributor leak could be causing too low of pressure and vtec is not being able to cross over because of that?

VTEC is the least of your concerns.

 

[colelmt]

VTEC is the least of your concerns.

Care to elaborate?

 

[AutoXCivic]

I think I can elaborate on that. If oil is getting in distributor ... part of distributor is hosed (or part of the head I guess). If part of distributor (or head) is hosed ... car does not (or is that should not) move. If car does not move ... VTEC does not matter.

 

[medinabard]

your leaking oil is what he means fix that first

 

[RonJ]

Care to elaborate?

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If car does not move ... VTEC does not matter.

your leaking oil is what he means fix that first

^These

You risk a break down if you lose spark or, even worse, destruction of the engine if you let the engine oil run low because the leak worsens or goes unchecked.

VTEC is a luxury function that you can do without, at least temporarily.

 

[Blu3]

Just order the gaskets and fix it, the gaskets cost like 15$ and take maybe an hour for a first timer to pull the dizzy and swap the gaskets. Its not hard to take a distributor apart just make sure you have the right size phillips screwdrivers or you will strip them out because there in their tight

 

[Esotericimage]

^^
This

 

[TheSteelBreeze]

use an impact driver.. like a makita.. know what i mean? like a drill but not, it's a driver.. for carpentry.. not a regular drill... it pops them loose super easy, won't strip the screws.

I just rebuilt my dizzy two days ago.. works like a charm.

 

[colelmt]

I ended up biting the bullet and buying a remanufactured distributor from NAPA. I rounded out my rotor retaining screw and the insides of the distributor were coated in oil.

Didn't change anything with the no vtec issue.

But I think my oil leak is solved now

I am continuing my thoughts on the no rev past 6000 rpms on my thread http://www.d-series.org/forums/general-tech/241242-d16z6-wont-rev-past-6200-rpms.html post #54

 

[RonJ]

Completely stock set up with P28 ECU?

 

[colelmt]

Completely stock set up with P28 ECU?

yep

 

[RonJ]

Does the CEL work?

Did you set the ignition timing with a timing light as per the service manual instructions?