Ok im sure some of you read that im having a spark issue. Well the spark issue is due to a bad Pickup coil. Well id replace the pickup coil if I could get the distributor out. I have cap off took out the hold down for the distributor off, And you would think its a easy remove.......... Wrong........ Wont budge it comes up maybe quarter of a inch and wont budge no farther. ANy ideas on how to get it out, Ive tried the bump the motor over someone tries to pull it out manuver still not workin. Ill be back and forth tryin to figure out this little dilema, if its not one thing its another.

 

At the base of the distributor, there's the connector for the cold start injector. It's got two wires going to it. It also has a silver C-shaped wire- squeeze that wire "in" towards the center of the connector. When you squeeze that wire "in", pull the connector straight off. (The shiny wire is the clip.)

Now pull up on the distributor.

This only applies for 85-89 2.8's, by the way. That connector comes so close to the base of the distributor, it actually locks the distributor into the engine.

I found that out in a junkyard; I was pulling a distributor so I'd have a spare in case I botched my first dist rebuild- I was standing on the motor pulling up HARD (the car had no hood)- finally I unplugged the cold start injector connector, and pulled up HARD again- and nearly fell backwards off the car- and i scraped up my hand on the cowl lip.

When I got home, and was ready to pull my car's distributor- I checked the same thing- pulled upward, nothing. Removed the CSI connector, the dist came right out.

Don't forget to re-conncect that connector when you're done with the job!

 

Removed the cold start injector and still wont budge moves maybe a quarter of an inch and still wont come out. Never had a distributor do this to me, ive had someone in the car tappin the key as I pull on it, turn it slowly by the crank bolt as I pull on it, even removed the cold start injector. nothing in its way from coming out. Any other remedies, this is very aggravating something so simple USUALLY to pull out wont come out.

 

Have you tried rotating the rotor as you remove it?
It does sit in a gear from the cam.so, lift enough to take weight off, turn one way, if it wants to go back down, turn other way.

 

Wow, I'm stumped. Unless v6sucker's suggestion works, I think I'd say that you could try prying it out somehow with a pry bar- but I'm not sure how you'd do that without ruining the dist's base plate.

Hm wait, one more suggestion- if you can bolt everything back together, hook everything back up, and run the engine to warm everything up, maybe you could try putting on Mechanix gloves and then unhooking it all and pulling it out while the engine's hot?

 

you might want to try wiggling the rotor... sometimes they stick (good possibility if you think the distrib is worn) and when its sticking it cant freely rotate to let the gear out.

 

Nope wiggle , yanked, pulled, screamed at it, kicked the tire, you name it ive done it. Never had a distributor so stubborn on coming out. And go figure replace the coil and the coil throws one spark upon first crank and one spark upon release of ignition. Every component on the ignition is new. Yet we are getting power to the coil and ecm is doing its job, question would a worn magnet on the distributor cause spark failure meaning spartic spark. If you remove the coil wire from the coil it arcs off the metal bracet once upon turning key then once upon letting off the ignition switch. then other times itll spark normally. Engine will turn over and not respond to anything but if you do alot of 2 second turns of the key the engine will fire and attempt to start but coil does not continue to keep spark going so it dies. Anyone live in the chicago area want to come help me see if i missed anything. This motor gonna make me lose my patience and just drop a good old fashion hei, vaccum advance 350 in her and call it a day but i want to build my 350 right if i throw it in now itll be a lil ole 400 hp motor which will pass emissions, but if i do what i want to do to it itll have 470- 490 hp and still pass emissions. if I can figure this @#$%#@@$#$@!!#$#@!#$@! pos distributor and get it out of the car ill throw in a brand new distributor and not mess with the original one to the car. Then ill be able to complete the 350 the way i want it. Anyways enough of me complaining. Im gonna go get a BFH and go reason with the distributor J/K anything else that might jar loose this stubborn as **** distributor??

 

NVM rubber mallet and a pair of vice grips on distributor made it see it my way. Go me!!! TY for all the little tips when all else fails and your gonna get rid of the dis anyways a pair of vice grips on the rotor shaft with rubber pads of course and turn that shaft with the vices and tap the house with the mallet using a 10" extension on the house and have a guy muscle it up works hmmm no wonder my spark was erratic I pulled the distributor out the gear and shaft came out without takin the roll pin out guess i found my problem

 

The 60* engines use an o-ring to seal the dist and it usually seizes, making removal a pain. Other engines just use a normal gasket.

Another reason to hate the 60* V6.