[Dark Skies]

Hello there. New member crying out for help.

Does anyone have any ideas as to how I can easily remove the speed sensor from it's seating on my 944? It proving to be a right song & dance.

About five months back I replaced the flexidisc (sits on the back of the flywheel) in my automatic trannsmission Lux. I had to remove the reference / speed sensors to facilitate the job and simply undid the adjustable bracket and took it and the speed sensor to my bench. It was well seized in and had to be drifted out with a rubber mallet. I bought a second hand sensor to replace it as it got a little out of shape. It was easy enough to replace, gap (with a .8mm thick rubber o ring stuck to the bottom - I left it to be swept of by the flywheel) and tighten the bracket with all the other pipes and cables already removed .

The car was running well for a few months and then refused to start. A swift test with a multimeter revealed the s/h sensor had packed up (open circuit on two of the three connector pins) and was the likely cause.

I have a new sensor but can't seem to shift the old one. I can lift it clear as far as the rubber o ring between the very top of the metal body and the plastic of the sensor but no further. Try as I might I can't get the bloody thing to pull out. I've tried getting grips to it but just can't get the leverage (very tight on space).

Twisting it and pulling doesn't seem to get me anywhere.

Brute force doesn't work either. I even tried using a 6mm screw placed in the mounting hole of the sensor with a nut either side and turning it to act against the mounting bracket in the hope of pullng it free as on might split a ball joint. The plastic body broke.

How can it be so tight??? Surely the o ring can't be holding it in???

I thought I might try using one of those corroded bolt easing fluids to break down the rubber o ring. It seems like a long shot but I'm fresh out of ideas. I'm trying to avoid removing the whole bracket because then I'd need to pull a lot of other stuff off to gain sufficient access to refit the fixing bolt.

Has anyone out there got any tips?