Frozen Distributor
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Frozen Distributor
'77 F-150 351M NP435 4.11LS
Frozen distributor. Anyone have any ideas that might free it up? I've cranked on it pretty good with a pair of channel-locks without success. Not much room to work.
Thanks.
Frozen distributor. Anyone have any ideas that might free it up? I've cranked on it pretty good with a pair of channel-locks without success. Not much room to work.
Thanks.
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On mine I had to:
Soak it awhile with penetrating oil.
Get a slide hammer hooked to it with a chain and try to jerk it up.
Hammer it with a punch, on the driver side there is a flat tab that extends out on the metal part of the body.
After a few days I got it to start moving and finally pop out.
Soak it awhile with penetrating oil.
Get a slide hammer hooked to it with a chain and try to jerk it up.
Hammer it with a punch, on the driver side there is a flat tab that extends out on the metal part of the body.
After a few days I got it to start moving and finally pop out.
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This thread has been visited here several times. These engines have a bad habit of sticking, because the gasket area sits low in the block casting and collects water/dirt/antifreeze etc..
Just soak it with some kind of penetrating fluid and you will have to get rough with it. Some distributors have a squarish area on the bottom where you might be able to get a wrench of some type on it, or large channel locks, but often you have to get rough with them to the point of destruction. I had one stuck that I had to get a bar and beat on the vacuum advance shoulder with a bar and hammer to get it to break free.
I do not know any magic bullets that will fix this easily, since there is no way to know just how frozen yours is.
Just soak it with some kind of penetrating fluid and you will have to get rough with it. Some distributors have a squarish area on the bottom where you might be able to get a wrench of some type on it, or large channel locks, but often you have to get rough with them to the point of destruction. I had one stuck that I had to get a bar and beat on the vacuum advance shoulder with a bar and hammer to get it to break free.
I do not know any magic bullets that will fix this easily, since there is no way to know just how frozen yours is.
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neilman, after the effort it took to get it out, I decided it was probably a good time to replace it. I'm not sure how much pounding they can take before they deform, but that along with the slop in the bushings sold me on a new dizzy.
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Yep...had that problem too. I poured a small amount of clean motor oil around the base of the dizzy...let it soak for about a week...and then popped it out with a BIG screwdriver. When i re-installed the new dizzy, I put some moly grease around the base and slipped er back in the hole. Good Luck!!
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I was able to bust it loose last weekend. After soaking all week with penetreting oil, I put channel-locks to it, clamped the handles and used more torque.
Thanks for all the input and tips,
Scott
Thanks for all the input and tips,
Scott
Last edited by nielmans'77; Mar 17, 2004 at 12:46 AM.
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