Loosening a stuck distributor.

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » July 20, 2009, 8:16 pm

My dist. is stuck on my 78', 351M Any ideas? Bad enough I had to fabricate a wrench to get to the stupid thing. After loosening the bolt the dist. won't budge. I've been bathing it with pb blaster. maybe it will loosen up on it's own. At least I finally got her running again, after sitting for so long and have a thorough understanding of how 2150 carb. works and all choke linkage operates. Please don't ask me how. Anyways I've won a few battles, need to fight a few more. Any guidance would be apprec.
Charlie

jwh f-100 · Post by **jwh f-100** » July 21, 2009, 8:42 am

I would continue with the pb, maybe some light tapping on the body of the dist. with a small hammer to help work in the pb.. If you get the engine hot will that help?? :dontknow:

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » July 21, 2009, 3:44 pm

Thats what I'm hoping, between to pb and running it often hopefully it will loosen her up. With the ac compressor it's so hard to even tap on the stupid thing.
Charlie

jakdad · Post by **jakdad** » July 21, 2009, 5:01 pm

Use a long brass drift pin and tap gently near the base.

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » July 23, 2009, 3:52 pm

It just keeps getting better, every time that truck leaves it gets towed back. I'm really flunking mechanics 101 here. Rebuilt the carb so everthing works the way it's supposed to. It runs fine at home, take it out on the road and a miles or so down the road it dies, no fuel in the filter, ok new fuel pump, just did it again. I had the tank down a while back, it wasn't real bad, flushed it, new filler hoses, new rubber lines blew out the steel lines. This shouldn't be rocket science but it sure is turning into it. I'm gonna hook up a old electric fuel pump and see what happens. Sorry had to vent.
Charlie

Fanatic · Post by **Fanatic** » July 23, 2009, 7:02 pm

Charlie.......

The problem is ................

The truck is too new !!

Good Luck

Tim

66fordtrucknut · Post by **66fordtrucknut** » July 23, 2009, 8:40 pm

These new fangled trucks with 2 barrel carbs with automatic choke crap. sure do like the simplicity of Eunice. Dropped the tank again, sure seems like the pick up tube should be longer, it has a filter on the end that was off, I wonder if that would be the difference and it running out of gas when it's moving down the road.
Charlie