FE distributor removal!!

Holy crap! The aluminum Mallory will spin the housing in the
manifold, but WILL NOT come out of the manifold.
The distrib shaft spins correctly with engine rotation. Is it frozen
to the oil pump shaft?

Whatever, now what??? I cannot get that sucker out. Anyone have any
solutions?
BajiBoy.

On Sep 2, 2:35 pm, wrote:
> Holy crap! The aluminum Mallory will spin the housing in the
> manifold, but WILL NOT come out of the manifold.
> The distrib shaft spins correctly with engine rotation. Is it frozen
> to the oil pump shaft?
>
> Whatever, now what??? I cannot get that sucker out. Anyone have any
> solutions?
> BajiBoy.

Yup, had to pull it. The Holly Dominator manifold developed an H2O
leak at the back of # 8, where the electrolysis just ate through. I
have never seen anything like it! New Edelbrock Performer RPM
manifold on the way.

Thanks for the heads up on yankin' the pan to put it all back. I kinds
figured that might be the case after I got it out.

The distrib came out after I applied pretty good leverage on it with a
prybar, and then began tapping up under the housing with a small
ballpean. There are some nice smiley faces on the side where I
boogered it up a bit, But it's out, the manifold is being sold the the
recycler after photos, and the distrib drive rod fell back through the
support hole down in there and won't fit up through it. I guess I
gotta get back under it.

By the by, the area below the gear teeth on the distrib has a metal
(?) build up, like it got hot and gathered some material off the
little support hole. Is it a problem? It may have been like that for
years, and I bought it that way. Just don't remember heatin' it up
that bad ever.

Any more thoughts?

BajiBoy