This thing, this thing right here

"roflcopter" (roflroflroflcopter) 06/24/2014 at 18:38 • Filed to: LOLVOSREVENGE

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Is the bane of my existence. Little piece wont budge at all. At least I have it narrowed down to the sensor in the distributor for sure this time.

Denver Is Stuck In The 90s > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 18:43

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did you try cleaning the distributor cap?

EL_ULY > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 18:46

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dang it!! :(

JGrabowMSt > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 18:55

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PB Blaster, a mallet and a screwdriver.

It'll budge.

CAR_IS_MI > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 18:55

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Hit it with a hammer. That usually fixes everything.

or breaks it.

either way, make sure you record it.

CalzoneGolem > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 18:58

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These are like $6 for the set from wallymart.

roflcopter > CalzoneGolem 06/24/2014 at 19:06

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I have no clue what you expect me to do with those when trying to get a distributor out of a block...

roflcopter > CAR_IS_MI 06/24/2014 at 19:06

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You can't even get a hammer in there to hit it with. I tried.

roflcopter > JGrabowMSt 06/24/2014 at 19:07

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Can't get an angle for that method, spent about 20 minutes trying to contort myself.

roflcopter > Denver Is Stuck In The 90s 06/24/2014 at 19:07

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Brand new cap and rotor, it's the sensor for sure. Ignition control module isn't getting a signal so there is no fuel or spark.

roflcopter > EL_ULY 06/24/2014 at 19:08

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I'm getting seriously annoyed trying to get this out.

roflcopter > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 19:08

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This didn't work. Was just wrenching the whole block around the engine bay, you could hear it lifting off the mounts I was pulling up so hard.

JGrabowMSt > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 19:11

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hit it so it moves. If its rusted into place, that will help.

or use a steel safety cable and a winch. Nothing works better than overkill.

EL_ULY > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 19:12

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lets me ask some peeps here

roflcopter > JGrabowMSt 06/24/2014 at 19:14

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I've been trying to hit it with the screwdriver and mallet to get it to turn, and can't even get it to do that. My next thought was to hook the strap I have around it to the engine hoist and just start lifting. If the front end lifts I'll just start jumping on the bumper. I'm sure something will come apart.

EL_ULY > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 19:15

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they are saying to leav3 some penetrating oil over night. Soak it and let it sit for a day.

JGrabowMSt > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 19:22

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have it towed to chernobyl and leave it there. See the movie Chernobyl Diaries? Those creepy people will get that thing out for you in no time at all.

My car doesnt have a distributor, so I dont have these problems. Coil packs are a slightly different world of hurt.

sortofindian > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 19:27

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Pull the cap and start heating with Mapp gas

roflcopter > sortofindian 06/24/2014 at 20:02

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Wouldn't heating the dizzy make it expand and get stuck even more?

roflcopter > EL_ULY 06/24/2014 at 20:03

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Yeah... it's been soaking off and on for months. I got it to move about 1/4in and then it started putting up a fight again. I really don't want to pull the intake manifold again just to get a better angle.

CAR_IS_MI > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 21:06

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Try harder [read: Swing harder]

EL_ULY > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 21:49

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i think that's what you have to do man. It's just more of a pain with it on. Still man soak it and twist back and forth ever so slightly to loosen the 2 mended metals. Then pull.

sortofindian > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 22:06

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The block and the dizzy will expand the same but the heat will break the bond between them

twochevrons > roflcopter 06/24/2014 at 22:52

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Heh, I had a stuck distributor in my MGA. Thankfully, on that engine, it is possible to remove the distributor mounting sleeve with the distributor still in it (since it is almost impossible to get to the points otherwise, and that way, you can get it in and out without messing with the timing).

Turns out some previous owner in the car's rather chequered past had RTVed the distributor into the sleeve. For what reason I do not know. In the end, I just had to give up and get a new distributor, then smash the old one out with a hammer.

roflcopter > sortofindian 06/25/2014 at 00:01

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It's turning now. So I guess it's broken loose. Still takes quite the effort to turn it though and it won't come up any higher. I suppose this is just a really tight fit.

CalzoneGolem > roflcopter 06/25/2014 at 17:26

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Poke it and pry it. I guess I thought you couldn't get to that hook off the dizzy and one of these would be great to pry that off and poke around at it real good like.

sortofindian > roflcopter 06/26/2014 at 23:40

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