hotdoggies

So im doing a tune up on my 99 si i just pruchased a few weeks back. Take off the distributor cap and prepare to take off the rotor. No screw there so im like WTH? how is this thing hanging on ? then there it was a epoxy like substance i could see inside of the plastic. How the hell do i get this thing off?

NOFX

I figured you meant the brake rotor by the title.

After working in parts for a few years I'm not surprised at all. People are cheap. Perhaps the distributor was damaged in some way already? I hope that's not the case.

Good luck on managing to remove it. Not sure what would be the best course of action.

instructor74

I would try a dremal tool with a cut off disc. Slowly make several cuts length wise and break it off in small peaces.

0HAMOTORSPORTS

Some people are simply just stupid. They didn't want to go to their local honda dealer and buy a new screw (or buy a new rotor which usually comes with the screw)

Flippin' idiots I tell ya....

Red_Army

id say try like hitting it with a hair dryer and warm up the glue/epoxy and see if you can pull it off slowly.

other wise i'd say just get a new dizzy from king distrib. not the best option but thanks to morons it might have to be the solution.

Linked

i almost stripped one of the screws for my dizzy

it wouldnt be the screw that has to be replaced though, the hole on the dizzy would strip out and would need repairing with a helicoil or oversized bolt or something

EL Vap133

Whatever you do, be very careful!

tonythetuner®

Wow can't belive some one did some **** like that that's ghetto I would just try cutting it off with a dremal good luck

speedooo

Are you reusing it? Probably not. Break it off.

MonkeyMagic

lol.. never ceases to amaze me what people will do.

i'd leave it on there until it absolutely required changing. then i'd cut it off in pieces.

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

Who? The same kind of people that drive around without torque mounts.

stun_rider89

lol thats getto

speedooo

I did that with old my sohc swap...but i had innovative 85a mounts on a stock y8 so that sucker wasn't going anywhere

DC2_R

I suggest getting a small puller like a steering wheel puller and attach it to the rotor. But that dremel idea is good as well.

ken9

Could be that there isn't any honda's dealer near by..

Mojica

wow lol

NOFX

Even a parts store rotor would come with the new screw as well.

EDIT: Autozone rotors do not come with a new screw.

hotdoggies

Hell yea i mean whats a ne rotor cost? 10 bux tops? Dremel seems like the best option...Im worried bout pieces dropping down in there. Rediculous that someone would do that. Only good news today is i got my NGK blues on. Luckily its still in decent condition. Little burnt on the end but, still workable...last til i get a solution.

The fuel filter was completely clogged, plug wires stock, When did maintaining your car become second place?

hotdoggies

Thats what i was thinking.

FlewByU352

Torque mounts arent really needed with stiff race mounts :p I've launched my car at the track and it was either hook or spin, no wheel hop.


Anyways just break it off. Your changing it anyways so crack it off.

fungus mungus

Once you break it off, you can use some Jasco paint stripper to soften the epoxy and remove the residual epoxy from the shaft.

I've actually purchased an aftermarket rotor and the screw didn't come with it. Tried to use my OEM screw, but the rotor's screw hole wasn't countersunk enough, the screw ended up hitting the shroud. Returned it and bought an OEM rotor, which had the screw AND the shroud. But yeah, I can't believe some clown actually epoxied a rotor on. Even a hardware store could match up the screw.

fm

grumblemarc

iTrader: (4)

All the mounts were stock. Lot's of other things missing when I got it. Kid was driving it daily like that.

Hope nothing else about the distributor is messed up.

Markb16a

x2!

98civdx

Not the most cost effective way, but I would just replace the dizzy....

You don't know what else inside that thing has been messed with.

MonkeyMagic

not a whole lot to "mess with" inside a distributor. only a few sensors that are either there, or not, and either hooked up, or not. nowhere for them to go or mis-adjust.