ever watch a new guy fight a problem thats easily solved?
I got a call from one of my friends sons , he was having a great deal of difficulty removing a distributor on a common small block Chevy engine in a van, because access was a real pain in the butt! ...made far worse because hes about 18 years old and he was trying to get access with common open end wrenches, I watched him struggle for 2-3 minutes and suggested he use the correct tool, a distributor wrench....., what I didn,t realize in most of these kids have never seen one or heard of a distributor wrench....well for those of you that don,t know what they are they are a wrench that commonly comes in 10mm,12mm, 14mm,15mm 1/2" and 9/16" but there ARE other sizes available, they are designed to make accessing the bolt or nut on a stud , holding the distributor clamp to the intake far easier, so its much easier to loosen or tighten the distributor, now the kids who are brought up on computers controlled ignitions might find this amazing but on the older muscle cars its was very common to use a timing light and move or rotate the distributor to advance or retard the timing.
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I got a call from one of my friends sons , he was having a great deal of difficulty removing a distributor on a common small block Chevy engine in a van, because access was a real pain in the butt! ...made far worse because hes about 18 years old and he was trying to get access with common open end wrenches, I watched him struggle for 2-3 minutes and suggested he use the correct tool, a distributor wrench....., what I didn,t realize in most of these kids have never seen one or heard of a distributor wrench....well for those of you that don,t know what they are they are a wrench that commonly comes in 10mm,12mm, 14mm,15mm 1/2" and 9/16" but there ARE other sizes available, they are designed to make accessing the bolt or nut on a stud , holding the distributor clamp to the intake far easier, so its much easier to loosen or tighten the distributor, now the kids who are brought up on computers controlled ignitions might find this amazing but on the older muscle cars its was very common to use a timing light and move or rotate the distributor to advance or retard the timing.
RELATED THREADS
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=871&p=1359#p1359
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=1015
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=4683
viewtopic.php?f=70&t=875