my buddy has a 91 hatch and needs to replace his distributors rotor. but the little screw that holds the rotor on wont come out and got stripped in the process, any ideas?

 

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On many of the older cars, it can be rusted in there pretty good.

Here are some options:

1st. Give more time than 1 hour for someone to answer the question when you leave a post at 1am

Try to cut a single slot with hacksaw (or something of sort) to use a flat head and be more aware/carefull knowing this is a problem.

Break/cut away more of the rotor button so that you canuse a good pair of vise grips on it.

Drill it out, making screw now to mess up the thread on the shaft (not a fun task)

 

the screw was actually made for a philips and flat and both stripped out so i guess we will have to resort to cutting away at the rotor. yea sorry i get impatient, wasnt thinking about most people being asleep.