[OrrieG]

283 you are right, take off the fork shaped retainer and it should turn about 1/4 turn CCW and pull up. It sound it is rusted to the manifold, or heaven forbid rusted or jammed up to the cam gear. Does the engine turn over, if it does then the distributor should also be rotating. I have never pulled an intake with a distrubutor attached, and do not know if you can because the dist sits at a slight angle. It would take three hands two to lift the manifold and one to turn the dist as you lift.