Several years ago a friend of mine told me that I needed to replace my distributor due to worn shaft bushings. He said I needed to get a corvette cast iron dist due to the oiling holes in the upper part of the housing. So we went to the local pick-a-part, he found one. I dont know what he pulled it out of. I just bought a correct number dist for my 67 396, so I dug out this cast dist to get the numbers off of it. They are on a metal tag around the housing. It read 1111015 5 F 7. According to CBN this should be an aluminum dist. What gives. If the tag has been put on this one what would a cast dist fit? Its a single point, no tach drive.

111105 for a 283/195,220 HP All 1965 Applications

5=65
F=June
The last number = the day in June it was built

1111015 for a 283/195,220 HP All 1965 Applications

5=65
F=June
The last number = the day in June it was built

According to my book, it is supposed to be an aluminum casting.

1111015 is a cast iron '63-'65 283 distributor for passenger cars - was never used in a Corvette (no tach drive). There are no "oiling holes" in the top of any Corvette distributor, except the fuel injection distributor, which used full engine oil pressure from an external line to lubricate the injector pump drive gears. The lower bushing on Delco distributors sees engine oil, and the upper bushing is lubricated from a sealed grease well underneath the breaker plate pivot. Your friend is misinformed about "oiling holes" - no such thing in a Delco distributor. graemlins/thumbsup.gif

Thanks John. What my friend was referring to is, at the top of the shaft housing, just below the "clamp pad", is a hole slightly smaller than a pencil. On an aluminum dist, it has no hole there. Thanks for your information. I thought someone may have swapped tags on this one.

Originally posted by JohnZ:
'1111015 is a cast iron '63-'65 283 distributor for passenger cars'.
'The lower bushing on Delco distributors sees engine oil, and the upper bushing is lubricated from a sealed grease well underneath the breaker plate pivot. Your friend is misinformed about "oiling holes" - no such thing in a Delco distributor.' graemlins/thumbsup.gif Accually there is such a thing as an 'oiling hole' on Delco distributors - most truck applications had them up till about the mid sixties and some H.D. Passenger (Taxi - Police/Fire) had them also. I did a lot of maintenace work on older city/county/state vehicles back in the day and used to have to lube them during service work. They had a small oiling cup with a flip-up cover.
His friend is incorrect about it being from a Performance application, they are oiled as JohnZ stated. It most likely came from a truck or scrapped city/county/state vehicle. Dist tag could have been exchanged or the number used on many different applications that year.

Yup, the old distributors with the standpipe oiler tube and the GITS flipper caps were last used on Corvettes and passenger cars in 1962; the old cast iron "bowl-type" distributors - don't see them much any more. These antiques had the centrifugal advance underneath the breaker plate; not real handy for tuning. graemlins/thumbsup.gif