what a pain changing mag pickup

It was an unbelievable pain in the *** changing the pickup and reluctor in my 318. Can't imagine they ever intended it to be replaced. But it did fix it - starts much easier now, cold and hot, all the time.

Was there some easy way to change these parts? Needed a small gear puller, had to VERY carefully remove 4 side screws from the distributor (one slip and they are gone forever), pull vaccuum advance, remove a plate assy to get to the clip holding the pickup assembly. Instructions with the parts didn't say anything at all about that. Took a day and a backache.
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