Maybe I will go get a comealong after work and hook one end up to the trusses on my garage. Stupid thing is so stuborn it's probably bring the roof down. I agree, I really don't want to take the time to take everything off needed to drop the oil pan. Thanks everyone.

 

I would seriously no use an engine hoist to ****** out a distributor. That can't be good.

Suck it up and drop the pan. It isn't that big of a job. You may have to disassemble the steering and remove the cross member but still, if you try snatching out the distributor with an engine hoist and it turns tocrap and you really break something,then you will seriously be kicking yourself.

Drop the pan, pull the oil pump and see what you have going on. It sucks, but if you break something trying to do it the easy way and wind up dropping the pan anyways, that will give you something to cry about.

 

How about using a torch to heat up the area around the distributor, *then* applying some penetrating oil? I would be willing to bet that since it is stuck that bad, the penetrating oil that you have already used isn't getting to where it should be getting. The heat should help that.

Not to make light of your situation, but I wish I wasn't on the opposite side of the country. I would really like to see this challenge in person.

Good luck!

 

completely OT, but JMD nice H beams and main girdle

 

I have hit this thing half a dozen times with Map Gas and have been dowsing it with PB Blaster since Saturday. I will flank it and come in form underneath this evening. I will catch it totally off guard. I had the oil pan off over the winter to change the oil pump. I have to take the tranny cooling lines off to do it... UGH! Time to bite the bullet.

 

I wish you the best of luck, that has got to be the most frustrating thing I've ever seen.[&o]

 

Thanks. I am afraid this might be only have the battle though. The other half is getting the new distributor lined up w/o any of my markings off the old one. What pisses me off the most is that I never wanted to take the old one out, only turn it to correct the timing. Oh well...

 

IMO pulling on the distributor is less of a risk that driving it out from the bottom.

It looks to me that pulling the pan will only give the OP access to the distributor through the oil pump drive shaft, it is otherwise inaccessible from the crankcase. He might be allowed some limitedaccess by removing the timing cover, I know that on my 351, I could see thecam/distributor gears through a hole in the block, but if I remember right, the camshaft gear was the one I saw, not the distributor gear.

It is my opinion that short of pulling the motor and removing the crankshaft, the distributor will need to be forced out one way or the other, either from the top, or through the bottom. IMO, the the biggest risk would be damaging the cam gear, (I think a small risk) with an even more remote chance of damaging the block. In either case, the distributor must come out, at this point, and it ain't going without a fight, whatever the route of removal.

 

simply classic right there LOL