Distributor seized on my 351m. How are any of you breaking it loose? Ive soaked it with penetrating oil,tapped it,vice grips and reefed on it and nothing.THANKS

 

What are you using for penetrating oil?

 

i just picked up some JB twice as good, before that junk wd40.

 

Those are both lubricants, not penetrating oil. They haven't touched the joint at all. You need to use PB Blaster. Soak the shaft 1-2 times a day for a week. Try again next weekend, and if it still hasn't popped loose, then come back. You need to get a chemical down in there to start working before you can even get started. Here's the can you're looking for:

 

i'll pick some up tomorrow and give it whirl,thanks

 

Google "Mouse Milk" and see if you can locate some local, or try Sea Foam Deep Creep or "CRC Freeze Off Super Penetrate".

See if you can get the special swivel neck pipe wrench used in plumbing to get the nuts off the underside of a faucet to get in there.

Usually there is way to much stuff (a/c bracket/vacuum advance valve ect...) to really be able to get in there and get a grip on it. Try a strap wrench, or a small pipe wrench.

Worse case you will have to access from below and tap up on it. Yes that means getting in way deeper than you probably want to to just get a dizzy removed.

 

The JB broke it loose by the next morning,still cant get it out yet and havent made it to town to pick up the other products. Thanks guy's.

 

When you do pull it, be careful for the connection shaft from the oil pump to bottom of distributor, to come with it or stay in the oil pump, it has been known to fall out all together.

Use a dab of grease to keep it centered in the hole come distributor reinstall time.

 

thanks for the reminder,been almost 30yrs sense i owend 1 but its all coming back to me... S L O W L Y.