Re: [alfa] ignition timing

["Dean" <tessiedog@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark the drive gear on the end of the distributor can be rotated 180
degrees. Not sure what you did but it sounds like you set the engine up on
tdc at number four pot. That will not matter however the distributor is now
180 degrees out. Just double check the engine is firing number 1 cylinder
and the cam lobs are pointing outward. There is nothing wrong with just
re-routing the ignition leads if you want.
Dean
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Patterson <mrpfiat@domain.elided>
To: alfa@domain.elided <alfa@domain.elided>
Date: Tuesday, 8 June 2004 7:32
Subject: [alfa] ignition timing


>I must be being colossally dense, but I just cannot
>figure this out.
>
>I'm putting my engine (1750) back together, and at
>cylinder 1 TDC, the distributor rotor is pointing at
>the lead for cylinder 3.  The weird thing is that my
>Autobook manual says that at TDC, the rotor should be
>pointing to the front of the car, which it is.  So it
>seems that either the manual is wrong, and the rotor
>at TDC should be pointing toward the left side of the
>car (which in fact it is at TDC in my 2000), or
>somehow the distributor is off 90 degrees.  But I
>never moved the distributor.  And the range on the
>clamp would not allow me to move it 90 degrees anyway.
>
>
>If the manual is wrong, though, then it seems that my
>rotor is pointing in the wrong direction, and it
>should be pointing to the left of the car.  But how
>could that happen, since I did not remove the
>crankshaft or distrubutor?
>
>I really must be missing something very obvious.
>
>Mark
>
>
>
>
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