Thread: Swapped Distributor problems

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Happy to hear about the #1 being anywhere I want on the cap. I got into a long debate over this and thought I was right, by putting it wherever I wanted

Ok, so I am timing my motor properly, sensor coming off of the #1 plug and it is at 10 degrees as we speak, so that should do it for timing the motor right?

The wiring from the starter had been redone recently. As for the voltage coming into the coil it is 12 volts steady at idle. I just hooked my volt meter to the top of the positive coil contact. That should give me the accurate reading of volts coming to the distributor, right?

So at this point I feel like yanking the distributor returning cylinder 1 to TDC and giving it another go. Should I do this, or would it be an excercise in futility since the engine is coming in timed at 10 degress and somewhat running. Should I look for other problems? I just can't understand why when I pulled the old distributor and installed the new one just about in the same rotor position as the old and it came out about 20-30 degrees off and it ran fine at idle through that whole curve of adjusting it back down to 10 degrees.

Oh and as far as testing the timing out. The motor idles fine anywhere from 6 degrees to 25 degrees. I tested 6 degrees and when you take off it is really sluggish and knocks. At 15 it starts to miss on accelartion. At 8 it is a little of both. Weird. I think I'm going to pull all the wires and plugs just to triple check there is not a problem there, although I have done this before.