Stuck distributor

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Got a 340 engine in 73 dart that have been sitting 20 years cannot remove the distributor to prime the oil pump, have soaped with P T Blaster and Sea Form lubricanting oil.
Engine turn freely, inside of valve cover is clean as if has been sitting for only a month. Distributor will not move even using 14 inch pipe and hammer/ chisel. Any Ideals?
 
Yeah. Move the wiring aside and put an oil filter wrench on it if you can fit one in there.
 
can you pry up the housing from the lifter valley? Remove pan and oil pump and rap the drive with a punch. they are cheap enough here to replace if you pooch it. Never heard of one stuck like that.
 
When you say it will not move do you mean it will not rotate?
 
Have you tried heat around the distributor opening?
 
The engine turns freely.....therefore the distributor is turning with it?

Distributors are cheap. You can get it out!
 
easpeed said:
Will not rotate or budge from engine block
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There is a rubber O ring that might be effectively welded in place.

I had a 20.00 crank sensor that cost 600.00 to remove due to the o ring.

You could try trans fluid and acetone with an injector needle around the base.

Just have to ask...

you did remove the lock down bolt?
 
drive it out from the bottom! You can remove the pan while in the car. That or take a sledge to the side and just knock it off. The drive will pop out of the socket and then you can just chisel the pieces out. Stuck is stuck.
 
I would get a long 3/8 drive extension and alternate from side to side tapping it with a LARGE hammer. You're not trying to break it. You want a large hammer so it will give good firm heavy blows, but not so much you're trying to break anything. Keep alternating tapping on it side to side, spraying with a good quality penetrating oil. I like Sea Foam Deep Creep and it'll probably loosen up and come on out.
 
Hit it with a hard rubber mallet, a hammer on a thin block of wood, back and forth all around it’s perimeter. Time to get violent with it.:lol:
 
I tell you what you can try. Get you a razor blade scraper and get the edge of the blade under the distributor collar between it and the block and wiggle the blade all the way around...or as far as you can. That will cut loose any sealer someone has put on it if it has some.
 
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So, still waiting to hear if the hold down was removed. My money is on they damaged the area that fits in the block and hammered it in.
 
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This^^^^^^^^^^
 
If oil sender, etc.., is out of the way, crowbars, one each side, might draw it out. You would need a helper.
 
pishta said:
drive it out from the bottom! You can remove the pan while in the car. That or take a sledge to the side and just knock it off. The drive will pop out of the socket and then you can just chisel the pieces out. Stuck is stuck.
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If the distributor is REALLY stuck, I think this would just create more problems. First the plastic collar at the bottom of the distributor will shatter with the pieces going into the engine. Then the roll pin gets sheared off with the pieces going in the engine. Then it'll be touch and go if the distributor drive gear is long enough to touch the bottom of the distributor without falling out of the bore. No, I'd be leery of doing it this way.

Me?

1) I'd take the intake off, make me a couple of jack screws that would go between the bottom of the distributor and the drive gear and jack it out.
2) I'd make up a fixture to grab the distributor, probably a fork of some sort, get out my 'silver slapper' and pull it out.

But I again wouldn't start beating on it from the bottom.
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