Good Car Day

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

Mr. Technical here again.
I'm not sure you're going to be able to do much with heating or cooling the fuel distributor. Really you want to heat the fuel distributor and cool the pin, but I don't see you can do that since they are so intimate (thermally joined at the hip).
And, I agree that using a blow torch seems a little extreme.
I guess what I would try is to use some sort of penetrating oil like PB Blaster and soak the pin from both ends. Get the top via the fuel fitting at the center of the distributor. After it's been soaking a while I'd apply compressed air to the top center fuel fitting and see it that will blow it out. Have something ready to catch it if it does come out!!
Bear in mind that the pin is a precision fit into the housing. There is no seal. The pin is tight enough that a gas molecule can't get by. 
So, if the pin is damaged extracting it, or it turns out it or the housing is rusted, then you might as well pitch them.

I'm happy that Cathy shared your cat love, cause I'm allergic to the little bastards and guess who they always seek out.
Dan

From: "Lexan Blanchard" <lexan_122874@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 7:24 PM
Subject: Good Car Day


> Well, not much progess on getting the pin out of the fuel distributor 
> (someone told me to heat it with a blow torch, but lighting a FUEL component 
> on fire doesn't sound like a good idea).  I have stuck it in the freezer to 
> see if some contraction and then expansion will help in the fight.
> 
> The GOOD part of the day is that when I got home both the new set of shocks 
> and the key blank (the kind with the round plastic top with the VW cut out, 
> right now its some crap looking generic key) arrived today!  I went and 
> showed the Rocc the newest presents.  The shocks being here REALLY makes me 
> want to get the car running and on the open road.
> 
> Anyway, my barn cat  (I will send pics soon) is under my feet begging for 
> the more expensive food, and keeping me from the task at hand (she has 
> become my companion when I am working on the car, like wrapping herself up 
> in the car cover, and crawling under the car with me).
> 
> Off for more garage fun!
> Lexan
> 
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