I have had many VW's that refuse to give up the rotor.  Assuming that your
removal is to allow a new replacement, the commonly used technique is to
squeeze the base of the old rotor with vice-grips till it cracks.  Off it
comes.  Obviously not reusable.

Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: sharks <jayshark@aracnet.com>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 2:40 PM
Subject: distributor rotor extraction

> I've never had any difficulty removing the rotor from a distributor
> before, but for some reason I wasn't able to get the damn thing out of my
> '90 Vanagon yesterday.
>
> Is there a trick that I should know?  As far as I can tell Bentley (as
> usual) skipped some of the trivial little details...
>
> --jay
> '90 Vanagon GL "Deep Blue"
> Portland, OR
>