Simple question for this dizzy plug on a verada KS.

Is it locked in place or do I just wiggle it off?

Can't see any lock tabs or other mechanism to keep it in place.
Just 2 screws that I think hold the socket.

http://i.imgur.com/DMw92wz.jpg

I found a similar plug in the engine bay and it seems this plug is retained by a looped "spring wire" clip.
The ends of this clip you can push out and then it can be lifted up to delatch the plug.

With this dizzy plug though there is no room to do that.

If there is some wiring lenght behind the socket, then maybe undo the 2 screws and withdraw the plug and socket as a unit.
Hopefully that will give some clearance to seperate the 2.

Anybody willing to confirm?

there are a lot of wires in that pink plug

i dont know what is under the screwed plate

IF it is meant to be unscrewed ..extract the lot carefully


... is that a push in tab .

that blue line going across the pink plug .half way up

.might be one on the other side


only other thought the wire clip push in .... is missing on the pink one

Plug just wiggles out. The orange and blue parts come out as one piece. Just tried it on a TS.

Yeah just give it a good old tug. Those plugs are held in with a little wire clip.

Thanks All.

I am obviously too "fine fingered" for car work (won't stop me!).

The orange shroud is part of the plug but I have no idea of its purpose.
The wire clip does act like a retainer spring for a lock tab on the socket.

Some of the wires are for the crank angle sensor that is inside the distributor.

With the front timing cover off there is more access to that little wire clip.
But that's the reason I wanted to remove the plug in the first place.

Be careful with these.
I recall breaking the one in my car years ago (it more-or-less just sits there since).

Removed a dizzy at the wreckers and cut the wire so I could have a good look at how I should have removed it.
Broke that one too!
Call me clumsy...

@KS95Dave
Its amazing how many different combinations exists to lock the various plugs/sockets in a car.
You would think they would standardise a bit more!

I don't think that plug is meant to comes off with a wiggle and a tug.
But not tried to remove it anymore as I have got the top timing cover off with it still in situ.

Now I spend half an hour trying to remove the coil plug as well.
It has a press to release type lock tab.
Unfortunately, pressing the release and pulling the plug in a confined space is a pain.
If you pull the plug without fully depressing the release the lock tab gets stuck behind its retainer and pressing the release does nothing after that.
You need to push the plug home again and start from scratch.
In the end I took a cable tie and wrapped it around the plug so the release stayed fully pressed in.
That was the only way I could pull that plug off.

I will remember this for the next time for sure.