Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2014 8:29 pm Post subject: Thank You!
Thanks to everyone who offered advice quite awhile ago for a stuck distributer on my M38. I started last summer to get it loose and today after letting it soak all fall and winter it finally came out of the block with no damage to the engine.
Never have I had something on an engine bond together so tightly.
Recently I tapped the pliers with a rubber mallet and to my surprise the distributer turned... after putting a long pipe over the chain pliers was I able to get enough leverage to get it to turn around... but I still could not get it removed.
If it helps anyone I ended up dismantling the passenger side front by removing the fender, air cleaner, wheel and grill panel. Only by removing everything was I able to get a long screw driver behind the distributer and leveraging against the block with a chain pipe clamping pliers on the distributer housing... while turning the whole thing and prying on the distributer at the same time was I able to get enough leverage to get it out of the block.
I used ATF fluid (along with everything else out there) and it had only penetrated about 1" into the shaft with a thin layer of dirt on the parts. The bottom of the shaft was bone dry even after soaking for months. The dirt was the culprit I think that acted as a glue or binder as the parts and block were rust free.
The 12 volt 1950's Japanese distributer was probably installed as a quick modification to the jeep along with the other modifications that appear to have been done by the military when it was used as some kind of flight line vehicle. Probably decades ago it got stuck to the block and all those years no one fixed it preventing it from being driven on the road. So, the jeep that would never run quite right, even though the engine appears to be a new RMC (timing was not correct) will now be fixed correctly and used again!
One should always use anti-seize between distributors and the block bore when installing any distributor to prevent your nightmare. _________________ Wes K
45 MB, 51 M38, 54 M37, 66 M101A1, 60 CJ5, 76 DJ5D, 47Bantam T3-C & 5? M100
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