SL - Thanks for your Reply.
I finally got the Distributor out. It took a LOT of grunting and groaning. Not to worry either about damaging the Distributor Body or Housing. I was very careful and used a dead blow hammer to tap and rotate the Dist. one direction, and used a Philips (in other words, round tip) screwdriver to rotate the Dist. the other direction. I put the screwdriver between the slot in the Dist. where the adjusting bolt goes, and the top edge of the Housing. This gave me leverage to rotate.
I started with plain old Liquid Wrench, because I needed something very thin with a low viscosity to 'suck in' between the faces of the Dist. and Housing. Once I was able to pull the Dist. up about 1/4" and could see the top of the shaft, I started running some plain old 3-In-1 down into the Housing. I wanted to provide as much lubricity between the shaft and housing as possible. My thought was that the rubber shaft seal was dried out and was grabbing & binding.
From that point on, I just rotated back and forth as I pulled up. It was slow going. What I needed was leverage. Now don't cringe, but I grabbed a small crowbar and ***carefully*** got the hook end between the edge of the housing and the bottom of the Dist. All it took was some gentle leverage and the Dist. slid right out. No damage or even score marks to the surfaces. That rubber seal was hard and dry. New seal is on order. I will probably inspect and polish the shaft with some 400 and 600 wet or dry to get it mirror like, before reinstalling.
All this to adjust timing.
