<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Its's free! I had it soaking in PB Blaster for a couple nights, and gave it one more try before switching to something else. With a foot long dowel and my rubber hammer I gave it a few measured raps in the "rotate" direction. It moved! A few more raps and soon I was able to move it by hand, back and forth, more than enough. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I only had a few minutes tonight, but my plan is to clean the penetrating oil away, lift it up a bit, and coat the mating surfaces with anti seize stuff. I've got some gooey old silvery Permatex stuff that should do the trick.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Just in time for British car week...</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thanks for all the hints.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Stu</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, May 21, 2017 at 7:34 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:CoolVT@aol.com" target="_blank">CoolVT@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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<div>I've had the same problem. I found if I ran the car and warmed the
engine that I could turn it to set the timing. A cold engine, forget it. I
think this issue has come up before. If not here then on another site for Ford
engines.</div>
<div>Mark L</div>
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<div>In a message dated 5/21/2017 6:12:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a> writes:</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">Every decade or so I throw a
new set of points and condenser into my stock 260, and this is the year.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">All went well, new points
in, dwell set, etc. The only problem? When I started to set the
timing, I found that the distributor is frozen to the block. The clamp
is plenty loose, so its not that. I've tried a little careful tapping
here and there, no result.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">It's usually a bit oily near
the distributror base, so its unlikely rust. More likely some sort of
dissimilar metals corrosion thing.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="FONT-SIZE:small">Any ideas out there?</div>
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