Hi,

Like I said it has been many years since I had one of those out.
If I pass by the car today I will try to see if it still does.
I’m pretty sure that it does come out or I wouldn’t know that it had the shape on the end.
That whole assembly might be held on by two screws.
The later LH system has the same screw even though it’s good for nothing because of the IAC on those cars. If it wasn’t that one, it was one of those on my other cars.

As I remember there maybe an O ring on its body. It may have gotten hard and so it is no longer pliable.
It does fit in there with some drag, so maybe it doesn’t want to play ball with you. Carbonized oil vapor? (:)

I have own my ‘78 GT since 8,000 miles as it was the dealers service managers car. I paid $8,000 for it.
It has somewhere above 350k on it. The odometer has quit several times despite my efforts.
The speed needle works but the numbered shafts have worn their bores in the pot metal too much.
It binds up or something slips.
Many many years ago the gear drive housing, on the rear of the transmission, cracked and fell loose disconnecting cable.
A cable tie has been holding it in place for the last twenty+ years. (:- hey it works. (:)

On older American cars it was called a roll of hay farmers bailing wire.
Talking about Heritage from Europe.
In Sweden they call the Volvos “tractors.”
That’s probably where the Amazon and the One series got their designs from. Our tractors had in-line engines too.

All that has changed just a little bit didn’t it?

Phil