I yanked my distributer today to put a new pickup coil in it. everything went fine until i tried to slide the shaft out. It slides up about 6" then gets stuck. so far I just removed the ign. module and took the gear off of the bottom of the shaft. Am I missing a step? or is my shaft/housing damaged?

thanks, Nick

 

When it's old, it'll do that. Just yank on it until it comes up!

 

yep...took about a half hour of me and a big friend tugging on each end. popped in my new pickup coil and module, started her up, and heard the wonderful sound of my engine misfiring. I don't think im ever gonna get this thing fixed...ran out of things to replace...

thanks, nick

 

Yeah, ancient oil spooge build up on the shaft and prevents it's easy removal.

 

dude you put it back in exactly the same way? had same problem, we were one tooth off, fixed that and it fired right up

 

yup i lined up all the marks i made, and checked the timing afterwards (6 degrees base timing). I replaced everything in the distributer (along with a ton of **** outside the distributer) to fix the misfiring, but it didn't work. Im taking out the injectors today to have them cleaned...hopefully that will solve my problem...