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Re: distributor removal

To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: distributor removal
From: "W. B. Olson" <WBOLSON@cherokee.astate.edu>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 23:41:38 CST
> Date sent:      Thu, 22 Jun 95 21:17:49 MDT
> From:           slindsay@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Steve Lindsay)
> To:             mgs@autox.team.net
> Subject:        distributor removal
> Send reply to:  slindsay@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Steve Lindsay)

> I am trying to remove the distributor from the block without
> any luck.  I have removed the two bolts that hold it to the block 
> and it does not budge.  I then loosened the adjusting bolt and now
> that part that was bolted to the block will spin but the distributor
> is still as solid as a rock.  It will not even rotate if I wanted to
> adjust the timing.  
> 
> This is a 1978 B that has not been started for 10 years.  Shouldn't 
> the distributor be free to turn and slide in and out or is there 
> something else holding it?
> 
> 
I bet'cha it's rusted in place.  Soak it in wd-40.  Then, try it 
again.

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