Stuck Distributor

[Kocher93]

Had a buddy check my timing (he volunteered) and he said it was good. Out of my own curiosity I checked it myself and I find out I'm Retarded 4 degrees and have been the butt of many retarded jokes as a result. Anyway I loosened the holding down fork thingy. BAM No turn I put some effort into turning this thing,. strap wrench, pinch bar, a portuege friend. No avail, any remedy for a stuck ass distributor?

 

[y5mgisi]

Or,

Im sorry i have no advice but that just seemed like a fun thing to do...

 

[y5mgisi]

Ok ok, How much did you loosen the hold down bolt?

 

[Kocher93]

I could turn that thing by breathing, I beat the hell out of it with a hammer and it's being a real bitch. At this point if/when I get it out, my trucks getting a new distributor. Tomorrow I'll grab a new one and that way I will have no fear of breakage.

 

[y5mgisi]

Thats pretty crazy. I have never had one stuck before.

 

[1BEATK5]

I haven't had one that bad, but have had a few that wouldn't come out because of all the sludge buildup on the housing.

 

[Kocher93]

Yea I'm just eager to get it timed properly, It's an obvious problem lol.

 

[Fordum]

Well, if it was a ........Ford!!

Not saying they are better, but with it on the front of the engine you can get to it with a big honking pipe wrench.

Don't know if its peculiar to Fords, but over the years I have seen two dizzys break off right under the bowl leaving the rest in the engine.

At that point, on one, we took a hammer to the rest of it and was left with just the shaft sticking up.
Been a while, but as I remember, we lifted the shaft up as high as we could, and sawed it off.
Then, after the rest dropped down, we put a shop vac on the hole, and sawed a slot in the stuck part letting the vac pull the filings out.
When we got through it, it loosened enough to slide out, and then we pulled the rest of the shaft out with either a magnet or a small grabber tool.
Don't remember which.

The other one, I had to leave right after and don't know how they got it out.

 

[ryoken]

I haven't had one that bad,

I had one in a 70's monte carlo decades ago that did that... the alum galled itself to the block so bad I had to get it out by using a morgan knocker and chain standing on the valve covers with the hood off..

 

[Blue85]

Just take off the tranny-mount crossmember and the problem will take care of itself.

Or get worse.


How about working the base of the dizzy with an air chisel to spin it? Or put a regular chisel between the intake and dizzy base and tap it in all around? Can you get a pipe wrench on there? Of course you've entirely removed the hold-down tab, right? Any chance you can find a small bearing seperator?

This is TBI, I assume, so you have unplugged the connector to check base timing?

 

[wasted wages]

Big ass crowbar???

 

[diesel4me]

We ran into a few V8's at the junkyard that had a distributor "stuck" to the block,we used an oil filter wrench to twist them loose, and sprayed them with penetrating oil or ATF ,and kept twisting till they came out--took us a half hour to get one out of a 400 pontiac.....................................................................................................more than one of the others we tried removing refused to budge,and in desparation we tried using a chain wrapped under the base of the distributor and yanked upwards on it with the forkloader,or a engine hoist--they came out,but were not in "sellable" condition once they came out,unfortunately...but at least they came out in one peice,so another could be installed...