[tcb] Re: mark
- From: Mark Sawyer <mechmark@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 07:57:20 -0700 (PDT)
Take the wire retainer off the bottom, push the pin out, turn the drive around
and put it all back together. I hate to admit I probably turned it around
myself some time in the past but it would have been a quick fix.
Brian Denning <i_am_cool_fred@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: it was the other way around.
>From: Mark Sawyer
>Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [tcb] Re: mark
>Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 06:28:07 -0700 (PDT)
>
>If your running a mechanical fuel pump, there is no way the drive will lift
>high enough to turn. I haven't used that distributor in a loooong time, It
>might have had the drive cog on the bottom of the distributor shaft turned
>around as a quick fix to a drive being put in wrong. Get your bentley
>manual out and double check. If I'm remembering right, with the rotor
>pointing to the slot in the housing, the fat part of the drive should be
>towards the fan housing. Let me know what you find.
>
>Brian Denning wrote: i have no earthly idea.
>i got into a bit of a hurry due to the excitement
>and didn't set the thing at TDC before even starting...that was the first
>mistake. so i pulled out the, not mine, distributor and switched out
>condensor and points because the ones i had were brand spakin' new. then i
>went to put it in and it wouldn't go all the way in. but the distributor
>was
>in the drive gear because i could feel the rotar hitting the gear. so i
>popped open the valve cover and set TDC and then put the distributor in and
>still wouldn't go with the distributor set at TDC and the motor set there
>as
>well. so i finally turned the damn thing 180 and it went in with no
>troubles
>so i figured well maybe i just thought it was at TDC and it is really on
>number 3. so i buttoned everything up not changing the plug wires around
>and
>went to start it and heard a poof noise that well sounded like it blowing
>through the carb. so i had my wife get in and try to start it and sure
>enough the flame that shot out just about hit the top of the engine
>compartment. so i switched my wires around and told her to start it and it
>started right up. so now i am 180 out. the only thing i can think is that
>the drive gear pulled out a bit when pulling the distributor and when i set
>TDC the gear didn't move much because it was on #3 and when it got to TDC,
>or close to it, the gear slipped back into place. I don't know how it
>happened but i know next time to set it at TDC before i start.
>
>but the good side of things is no one can wrench on the bus unless they
>know
>
> >From: Mark Sawyer
> >Reply-To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: [tcb] Re: mark
> >Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 05:43:48 -0700 (PDT)
> >
> >Glad the distributor worked for you. How did you get it in 180 out? did
>you
> >pull the drive when you pulled the old distributor?
> >
> >Brian Denning wrote: installed the
> >distributor last night, somehow i got it 180 off but that's ok
> >as long as i know what is going on. fired up on first try only after
> >discovering it was 180 off. let it warm up adjusted timing adjusted the
> >idle
> >screw a bit. and it honestly seems to run better now then it did with the
> >other distributor. it runs real well.
> >
> >master cylinder is next on my list should be in any day now along with
>the
> >exhaust tip and resonator. then tires. found a place here that will mount
> >and balance wide 5's.
> >
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