I'm working on a 4.3L v6 in a Blazer and I've just pulled the motor. Apon dissasembly of said motor, the distributor is just flat stuck in the intake manifold/block. It barely wants to even turn with a box wrench on it. Any helpful suggestions aside from burning the motor to the ground?

 

Burn it.... j/k

AFAIK its just another distributor. It may need some persuasion to come out, but if you break it, its not my fault Maybe spray some penetrating lube down the shaft.

 

as long as you loosend the 14mm bolt holding the dist down it should pull straight out.. you did back out the hold down right?...

 

Basically, every bolt is out of both the intake manifold and out of the distributor. You can put a big wrench on the distributor housing and barely budge it, but that is all it will do. It's been soaking overnight in PB blaster. The intake manifold will move a bit in the front, but won't budge in the back. I already, uh, ajusted some water hose boss (ie, I broke it), so I don't want to cause any more damage to the fragile aluminum.

Would taking the cam out help out at all? I figure it's a shot in the dark, but then again, everything is with this motor. I was kind of hoping that there was some little trick that I missed, but I guess it's just the run of the mill stuck ass part.

 

Maybe rotate the engine using the crank bolt? That is just plain weird.

 

It's slowly coming out, it's just being a greasy bitch.

 

It finally came apart. There is so much sludge in this motor that it looks like the hive from the Aliens movies.

 

hahaha... yeah it is

Gald it came out. You cant take the cam out before the dist. though. The dist is driven off the cam via a gear (for anyone else who may not know)