Found a oil leak, need help Identify what it is?

[RDCII]

I fixed the oil coming from the pulley by adding a hose from the filler to the air cleaner.
Got it all cleaned up and ran it to the store, bout a mile. Jumped out and found oil just starting to come
out right behind/or infront of the distrubutor.. its a small dented circle. Ive put some hi temp silcone on it, and even tried some metal bonding pshaw. Both times it failed. Well heres a picture.

Why is it coming from here? what to do? any help would be much appreciated ....
RDCII

[Bill K]

J B Weld has been my savior many a time.

[CoryN]

might check your oil cooler seals, might be coming from there and pooling in the divot.

[RDCII]

Oh no the oil is undoubtedly coming from there, Everything else is sealed up pretty good.
The day I saw it weeping from there. I cleaned everything up and covered it in high temp 650 RTV.
Drove it about a mile and checked it. It was a gaint bubble then.. lol
Then I tried 4 min multi-metal epoxy. The kind you cut and then mix the dough together.
Would the Liquid type of JB Weld be better to try?

Thanks,

RDCII

[Bryan Porter]

There is oil pressure behind it jb might work for a while but will fail sometime.
The best way to repair it in my mind is to pop out the plug tap it and plug it imho.

[RDCII]

Thanks all for the repys. I went and got some JB weld, It says it can hold over 3k psi worth of pressure.
Going to let it set up for 24hrs and see how it goes.

Trying to drill it out and then seal it seems to be the proper way to fix. But as its summer and im not looking to do anymore
breaking down of my engine till at least fall.
You know what that hole is even there for? any ideas? Wonder if I can just get someone to weld it up forever and be done with it?

Thanks again,

RDCII

[Bryan Porter]

I think it is for oil pressure switch on a typeIII ?

[CoryN]

Not sure about that, I've got a type 3 on my buggy right now, the oil pressure switch was in the back under the oil cooler tower.

[RDCII]

After tons of research I think I figured what it is... Or at least think I do. Its a Oil Galley plug?? For cleaning out the engine or full flowing it? . I Ran across plugs sold just for this. But that entails tapping the plug out, Tapping the hole for a screw plug... Something Im not wanting to do cause Im sure you would have to remove/take apart the engine to get the metal bits that would fall in while making the screw grooves. Never the less, I keep trying JB weld and finally,
after cleaning and Scoring the area very well, the JB weld has seemed to hold off the oil for two days now. Well see how it does after a good 100 mile round trip.

RDCII