Even with the distributor drive 180 out, the engine
still fires normally. You just have to rotate the
wires around the distributor cap so it fires in the
proper order. Instead of number one wire coming out
of the puka pointed at #1 cylinder, move it so it is
in the puka that's pointed away from #1 cylinder.
Once you've got number 1 wire located properly, just
put the other wires in the appropriate pukas and Bob's
your uncle. Way easier than playing with the
distributor drive gear. Getting the drive gear in the
right position is a true PITA.
Aloha
Peter O.
--- "A. P. (Sandy) Grice" <apg4@pinn.net> wrote:
>
> Art <artbitt@netscape.net> wrote:
>
> >Getting the distributor drive in was fun. Getting
> that grub screw located
> in the bushing was timew consuming. Finally got it
> lined up, fitted the
> distributor-seems to be out (rotor points the wrong
> way) Going to run the
> wires on the cap different rather that trying to
> redo the drive!
>
> Did you remember that steel "doughnut" or
> distributor drive gear adapter?
> When I had the engine rebuilt by the machine shop, I
> kept the doughnut and
> the distributor together with the vehicle, so this
> innocuous part wouldn't
> go astray. Didn't discover that the machine shop
> had the distributor drive
> gear 180 degrees out 'til the engine was back in
> place. Rather than having
> it fire 4-2-1-3, I pulled the gear and spent the
> better part of an
> afternoon hunched over the wing trying to get it and
> that damned grub screw
> back in correctly. I lost count of the number of
> times I was one spline
> off, 'cause the gear rotates as it slides into place
> on the
> camshaft...maddening.... A short break away from
> the vehicle and a stiff
> drink helped immeasurably.
>
> Cheers
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