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Please help replacing magnetic pickup

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I have a 79 450 sl and i suspect my distributor magnet pickup is bad and i am trying to replace it. I removed the cap, rotor, dust cover and have gotten to the star wheel on top, i removed the circle clip and really have no i dea where to go from here. I dont have alot of experience removing distributors and all that but what exactly do i have to do to remove and replace the round pickup that plugs straight into the wire going to the icu? Any help would be much appreciated.
 

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Im trying to track down a no spark situation, i have a new dist cap, rotor, plugs, coil, good icu and 2 brand new resistors, i also have a brand new cable from the dist to icu coming in the mail today. Ive got a hunch that it may be the pickup in the distributor which is why im posting this and thank to all that are taking the time to read this.
 
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