How To Remove A Stuck Distributor

Over the weekend I verified that the benefactor in Betsy was shot. For a short term set up until a total motor job, I turned to the donor truck. Way less miles on that one. My program was to swap distributors. This is where the idea stopped.

Seems after a billion years of sitting, the aluminum in the distributor of the donor has corroded information technology self to the intake. I started tapping, etc with finesse. Afterwards some hours that escalated and I stopped just curt of brute force.

The only option I can see at this point is to pull the intake and beat it out from the bottom. Earlier I embark on that, I thought I'd see what kinds of success or failures others had had in this arena.

Thank you for the input.

Post by **tnlprt** » Mon Sep 29, 2014 12:twenty pm

does the dist rotate at all

Most likely it is the seal on the housing that has swollen

apply liberal amounts of penetrating oil applied at the base over a catamenia of a couple of days

If the dist still will not rotate put a pipe wrench on it around the base of operations and work it back and along since information technology is junk anyhow

subsequently information technology rotates soak information technology some more than

When it is nice and free to rotate

You can identify the wooden handles of 2 hammers on each side of dist and pry up on it

Post past **SoCalRefuge** » Tue Sep 30, 2014 vi:26 am

Expert news. Later on much soaking over the last couple of days, and a larger pry bar, I got the aluminum housing to popular loose. It isn't completely free as I can only turn it about 10-15 degrees. I am standing to soak it. I am concerned however that now I am fighting the oil pump shaft.

It has been 20+ years since this motor was run, so I am told. I think it was laying out in a field to exist honest. After draining about 2 cups of water out of the oil pan, I don't look annihilation to be easy.

Post by **hotrodfeguy** » Thu Oct 02, 2014 12:34 pm

Continue working information technology will come up. Can tap information technology with a hammer lightly as well, while your on it with the prybar. That'southward what I practice.

Post by **BobbyFord** » Thu October 02, 2014 8:29 pm

SoCalRefuge wrote:Good news. Afterwards much soaking over the last couple of days, and a larger pry bar, I got the aluminum housing to pop loose. It isn't completely free as I can just plough information technology about 10-xv degrees. I am continuing to soak it. I am concerned yet that now I am fighting the oil pump shaft.

It has been 20+ years since this motor was run, and so I am told. I retrieve it was laying out in a field to be honest. After draining about ii cups of h2o out of the oil pan, I don't expect anything to be easy.

Information technology's not the shaft that you're fighting. It'southward the dominate on the benefactor housing that goes into the hole in the lifter valley. Acquired by sludge build up from exceptional oil changes.
I've gotten them free using carb spray. Get carb spray with the long red stick on the nozzle and spray toward the dist housing through the agree-down clamp bolt hole. Spray while trying to spin the distributor back and forth.

Post by **SoCalRefuge** » Thu April 23, 2015 seven:00 am

A little follow up on my issue with getting this benefactor loose....

I never achieved success. Neither did a very experienced engine builder. They wound up breaking it off. It forth with every piston was rusted and seized in then tight that it was "the hardest motor nosotros take always taken apart". I knew it would accept fabricated a adept gunkhole anchor. But alas they accept prevailed and information technology looks similar it volition live again as a well running 390 with .030 over bore and some nice performance parts.

Preston.

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Yes I can tell you all the tricks I've heard then the one that worked for me on my 428 FE engine.
Some people highly recommend soaking around base of operations of distributor with pb equalizer penetrating oil for up to a calendar week if necessary. So yous spray around base and make sure of course that the distributor hold down plate is off commencement. You can too spray in the bolt hole. Many use a rubber mallet to tap unlike areas of the benefactor. Some remove cap and rotor and while using a pry bar under base of distributor they tap top and sides with rubber mallet.
Some use a small butane torch and heat expanse around manifold and benefactor and tap different places and pry up with bar. Many have had success right away or after daily soaking with Lead blaster and trying to pry information technology out each fourth dimension daily.
Some say take off oil pan, unbolt oil pump and become admission to oil pump drive shaft by removing pump and so shaft and some how beating from bottom upwardly to get it out. That sometimes evolves raising the engine enough to get oil pan clearance plenty to take it off to access oil pump.
So at that place's the other mentioned style I've read that I found very easy and worked for me. My distributor was new but I wanted information technology out and it was seriously stuck. I bought a 2ton cherry picker and was planning on raising engine and accessing distributor from inside bottom of motor.
Instead I tried a choker cablevision effectually the benefactor neck instead and I used carmine picker to pull upward on the benefactor. I had felt the bumper getting raised upwards and knew it shouldn't be much more than. A couple more pumps and my benefactor partially popped out. I and so got carpenter hammer and a couple taps and information technology jumped out of the motor.
Some reason the gear seemed to be locked in. The cherry pickers forcefulness of lift acquired the rivet holding distributor gear onto distributor to break., adjacent I inspected inside hole and realized my distributor gear was now laying loose near oil pump drive shaft. I fished it out with 2 spiral drivers. A visual on the gears showed no amercement to teeth.,next weekend I will install a new distributor. I had already destroyed this old distributor on the outside earlier I tried the cherry picker methods, but the choker cable did damage to. Information technology was well worth it to not take to pull oil pan and lift engine to admission benefactor from inside oil pan! No noticeable damages to anything simply distributor. My distributor was so extremely stuck before. I would highly recommend using chain hoist or scarlet picker and rubber mallet method. My distributor was extremely stuck and at present it's out:))

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