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[email protected] Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2003 Posts: 4
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 8:28 pm Post subject: Help! can't pull out distributor drive! |
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Hello,
I have a 71 van which has the distributor drive in backwards, and worse, possibly off by a few degrees!! I purchased a drive puller and tried my damndest to get it out, but to no avail. Does anyone know if there is a trick to this? the engine is in the car. The Bently says to just pull it out, but it just will not budge. I tried moveing the pully back and forth by varying degrees, but it still won't pull out.Any advise?
Thank you for your time.
Nate |
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flat4freak1978 Samba Member
Joined: June 02, 2003 Posts: 793 Location: stone mountain georgia
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2003 8:58 pm Post subject: Help! can't pull out distributor drive! |
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tap on it from the bottom with a rubber hammer that should free it up. its probably just stuck from being in the car for a long time. good luck. |
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jeremyrockjock Samba Towbar Builder
Joined: January 01, 2002 Posts: 5008 Location: Richmond, Verjinya
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:54 am Post subject: Help! can't pull out distributor drive! |
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I am assuming your wanting to do it without splitting the case. You may not be able to. You might have to split it and tap it out like flat4freak1978yahoo.com said.-Jeremy |
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gears Samba Member
Joined: October 28, 2002 Posts: 4391 Location: Tamarack, Bend, Kailua
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 8:50 am Post subject: Help! can't pull out distributor drive! |
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It is made in such a way as to only allow removal when it's in the proper #1 position.
Leave it alone and rotate the distributor to suit. The possiblity of losing the thin spacer is too great to remove this in an engine that is already built and running. |
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keifernet Samba Search & Rescue
Joined: May 11, 2002 Posts: 19395 Location: Samba Center for Behavioral Science
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 9:01 am Post subject: Help! can't pull out distributor drive! |
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errrrr you did remove the fuel pump/ rod and spacer block before trying to pull the drive shaft out diddn't you? |
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keifernet Samba Search & Rescue
Joined: May 11, 2002 Posts: 19395 Location: Samba Center for Behavioral Science
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 9:07 am Post subject: Help! can't pull out distributor drive! |
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Oh yeah and the spacer(s) almost always stay put, it's going back in with the drive you must be careful not to knowck them off where the sit.
I have done this in the car/and or engine assembled dozens of times. it's not that tricky.
gearsgte.net said... (6/22/2003 at 8:50AM PST)
It is made in such a way as to only allow removal when it's in the proper #1 position.
Not so... it can be removed installed anywhere, how do you think it got in wrong in the first place????
in fact a funny thing on a few whoever built the engine did not put the steel shims in at all and guess what?... a few thousand miles later the drive eats its way down into the case and the car quits and no one can figure out why... till you check and show them the distibutor shaft/rotor doesn't spin when the engine is turned!
then you have the fun part of figuring out how many shims you hav3e to stack up to get it to work right.... usually about 6 -8 instead of the 2 it normally takes. |
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[email protected] Samba Member
Joined: May 11, 2003 Posts: 4
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Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 11:01 am Post subject: Help! can't pull out distributor drive! |
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Thank you all for the information. I was able to install the drive shaft correctly, and now my bus runs great!
Nate. |
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