distributor cap removal

[Cloggy Saint]

What's the trick to removing/fixing the distributor cap? It's such a tight space to work in, not helped by me having hands like shovels and 2 of the bolt heads being invisible. Is it recommended to remove the top 2 hoses?

[Widge]

It can be done with it all in situ apparently, but when I did it I couldn't do it, so I waited till I did the timing belt and did it then. I think the metal water pipe across the timing cover gets in the way. The bottom bolts tend to corrode too, I had to drill one out.

[Cloggy Saint]

I did eventually manage to do it with everything still in place, but it took fooking ages what with dropped spanners, bolts and squashed hands.

[nickp]

Easy one here mate,
Get yourself a small socket to fit the dizzy bolts, then use an allen key on the socket whatever the size is and it's a piece of pisz m8 . It makes the job a lot easier!
Good luck
Nick

[johnono]

Easy one here mate,
Get yourself a small socket to fit the dizzy bolts, then use an allen key on the socket whatever the size is and it's a piece of pisz m8 . It makes the job a lot easier!
Good luck
Nick

god thats so easy , u make me sick

[nickp]

Easy one here mate,
Get yourself a small socket to fit the dizzy bolts, then use an allen key on the socket whatever the size is and it's a piece of pisz m8 . It makes the job a lot easier!
Good luck
Nick

god thats so easy , u make me sick

Hehe,
Believe me fella i had a few shredded knuckles finding out the hard way .

[Giggz]

I JUST CHANGED MY DIZZY CAP AND ROTOR ARM TO. ENDED UP TAKING THE RAD OUT.IT HELPED WITH SPACE TO MANOEUVER.