I have had many VW's that refuse to give up the rotor. Assuming that your removal is to allow a new replacement, the commonly used technique is to squeeze the base of the old rotor with vice-grips till it cracks. Off it comes. Obviously not reusable. Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: sharks <jayshark@aracnet.com> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:40 PM Subject: distributor rotor extraction
> I've never had any difficulty removing the rotor from a distributor > before, but for some reason I wasn't able to get the damn thing out of my > '90 Vanagon yesterday. > > Is there a trick that I should know? As far as I can tell Bentley (as > usual) skipped some of the trivial little details... > > --jay > '90 Vanagon GL "Deep Blue" > Portland, OR > |
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