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distributor cap removal
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:12 pm
by 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?
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:15 pm
by 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.
Posted: Sat Aug 13, 2005 5:25 pm
by 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.
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 12:08 am
by 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
Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:46 am
by johnono
nickp wrote: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
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 11:25 am
by nickp
johnono wrote:nickp wrote: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
.
Posted: Mon Aug 15, 2005 2:42 pm
by Giggz
I JUST CHANGED MY DIZZY CAP AND ROTOR ARM TO. ENDED UP TAKING THE RAD OUT.IT HELPED WITH SPACE TO MANOEUVER.
