[Tigers] Frozen distributor

[Stu]

Its's free!  I had it soaking in PB Blaster for a couple nights, and gave
it one more try before switching to something else.  With a foot long dowel
and my rubber hammer I gave it a few measured raps in the "rotate"
direction.  It moved!  A few more raps and soon I was able to move it by
hand, back and forth, more than enough.

I only had a few minutes tonight, but my plan is to clean the penetrating
oil away, lift it up a bit, and coat the mating surfaces with anti seize
stuff.  I've got some gooey old silvery Permatex stuff that should do the
trick.

Just in time for British car week...

Thanks for all the hints.

Stu

On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:34 PM, <CoolVT at aol.com> wrote:

> I've had the same problem.  I found if I ran the car and warmed the engine
> that I could turn it to set the timing.  A cold engine, forget it. I think
> this issue has come up before. If not here then on another site for Ford
> engines.
> Mark L
>
> In a message dated 5/21/2017 6:12:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> tigers at autox.team.net writes:
>
> Every decade or so I throw a new set of points and condenser into my stock
> 260, and this is the year.
>
> All went well, new points in, dwell set, etc.  The only problem?  When I
> started to set the timing, I found that the distributor is frozen to the
> block.  The clamp is plenty loose, so its not that.  I've tried a little
> careful tapping here and there, no result.
>
> It's usually a bit oily near the distributror base, so its unlikely rust.
> More likely some sort of dissimilar metals corrosion thing.
>
> Any ideas out there?
>
> Stu
>
>
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