Thread: Distributor Install Help

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OK, first of all, when you put the timing chain on the crank and cam sprockets and you had the dots aligned with the cam sprocket at 6:00 PM and the crank sprocket at 12:00 Noon, did you button the motor up then or did you rotate the crank one full turn to the right and then button the motor up??? If you did not rotate the crank one full turn clockwise, then the motor is timed on cylinder #6, not cylinder #1.

If the motor is timed on cylinder #1, then either rotor tip position will work, just choose one and that will be the #1 spark plug wire that you will run from the rotor tip position in the cap. Then move to the next hole clockwise and run that wire to #8, then next hole clockwise goes to #4 and so on through the firing order.

If you get the motor wired up and it does not start within 2 or 3 seconds while trickling fuel down the primary bores of the carburetor, then you have the motor wired on #6. Pull the distrubutor and turn the crank one complete turn clockwise, then re-stab the distributor with the rotor pointing at about 5:30 O'Clock (either position you are showing now).