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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 04:46 PM
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Default Distributor rotor broke

im trying to change my distributor rotor and the SCREW is not coming off or budging, i tried pliers needle nose and hex key's its not budging and some of the rotor broke off, how can i losen that DAMn SCREW. It's on there very hard and as you can see the screw is not a phililps screw its something else

this is a pic of the one im trying to put on and thats how the screw looks on the rotor on the car
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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 05:22 PM
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Take some vice grips to it. You may have to break apart the old rotor so you can turn the vice grips.

Then go get a another bolt. I've had that same problem
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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 06:16 PM
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what size vise grips did u use? 5inch?
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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 06:21 PM
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that looks like an allen screw. i replaced my philips screw with an allen screw, they dont strip out as easily as the crappy phillips.
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Old Oct 14, 2004 | 06:53 PM
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i had that same problem when i did mine. i just used one of those screw drivers that you pound from the back and it tursn when you hit it. came right out!
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