Help needed with removing parts off black during resto - Campaign

Evening all

Hope someone can help.

Spent a couple of hours on the Campaign this afternoon. The engine is out of the car making things easier. The car has not been on road for about 10 years.

I'm stripping the block of all ancillaries ready to clean up, paint and re-gasket etc. Also I figure that if things have been removed and refitted it will be easier in future for maintenance.

I've got the oil filter "body"off the block but there is an another piece I think called an intermediate plate with apparently only one bolt visible when the oil filter body is off  . I can't see any other bolts so with a light tap of a mallet on the side it tilts over making me think it's just pushed into the block. However without me forcing it, it seems not want to pull off. Is there a way to safely extract this?

I am looking to take off the timing belt lower cover. There's the bottom pulley which has 4 "Alan key" head bolts. I assume I need to remove this pulley wheel to take off the cover - I'm also replacing the cam belt at this point which makes sense,  together with the tensioners. The bolts are well rusted up though !  Finally, removing the distributor I've marked the distributor body and the part of the block it sits in. Is this sufficient to extract the distributor or does it need turning to TDC first before it will lift out.

Thanks in advance for help

 

1. not sure what you mean, pics?

2. yes need to get crank pulley off to gain access to one of the timing belt cover bolts. a 12 pint 13mm socket hammered over the top of the allen head bolts will get them off if they round off

3. just tug it out, when refitting line up the timing mark on the intermediate shaft and refit dizzy so that the rotor arm is pointing at the notch in the dizzy housing (or ignore int shaft altogether, just get it in so rotor lines up when engien is timed up to TDC since that is the only thing that matters)