kyote
Living The Dream
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- Apr 27, 2003
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- La Porte TX
Or just pull the dist and reset it. The mark doesn't really matter.
The mark on the intermediate shaft doesn't matter, to clarify, the mark on the distributor DOES matter.
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Or just pull the dist and reset it. The mark doesn't really matter.
The mark on the intermediate shaft doesn't matter, to clarify, the mark on the distributor DOES matter.
TDC is 0 degrees. The distributor rotor should be pointing at the thermostat housing. If you take the dust cover off the distributor. You will see the mark for no.1 firing there on the metal rim. The rotor is just pressed onto the shaft. Sometimes they are really stuck. You can wedge two screwdrivers under the edge of the rotor and pry up evenly to pop it up and off.
I can get the red cap, rotor, and dust cover off no problem but i dont see the no.1 mark anywhere. i linked a teardown of a dist, ive gotten the ones labelled 7, 8, and 9 off but the thing underneath of that (5 and 6) is still in there, do i need to take that out and is that what you were talking about with two screwdrivers or were you just talking about the rotor?
https://vp-autoparts.se/bilder/artiklar/sprangskisser/1501050460l.jpg
okay stuck a plastic straw in spark plug hole 1 at tdc and rocked it back and forth, it seems to be tdc. can i now take the belt off of the cam gear and freely spin the rotor to its position? nobody really explained clearly how to set the dist so thats what im inferring. i still do not know where the dist tdc mark is, i have run my fingernail around the rim of the dist cup several times and cannot feel or see anything.
im not sure what you mean exactly on your edit but im gonna not worry about it until i get it running
okay the aux gear is not lined up. i was told not to worry about that as i can just reset the dist and not worry about that, the cam and crank are both at tdc and i just need to align the dist. how the hell do i accurately measure 12 degrees past the first plug wire.
all i need at this point as far as i know is how to set the distributor to tdc without just messing with the aux gear because the timing mark on that is a pain to get to. is there a way to do this?