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Distributor install question #100593 08/06/08 10:06 AM 08/06/08 10:06 AM
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,345 Rohnert Park, Ca R ryan053 OP pro stock
ryan053 OP pro stock R Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,345 Rohnert Park, Ca	On my newly rebuilt engine when the #1 piston is at tdc the distributor rotor doesn't point directly to one terminal on the cap. its pretty much evenly spaced in between two of them. Would it be correct to have the #1 terminal be the one the rotor had just passed or the next one it comes too?

Re: Distributor install question [Re: ryan053] #100594 08/06/08 10:11 AM 08/06/08 10:11 AM
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 11,543 chicagoland,usa B buildanother I Live Here
buildanother I Live Here B Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 11,543 chicagoland,usa	If it's on tdc firing cyl #1, the rotor can indeed be between the #1 tower and the #8 tower.

Re: Distributor install question [Re: buildanother] #100595 08/06/08 06:13 PM 08/06/08 06:13 PM
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,345 Rohnert Park, Ca R ryan053 OP pro stock
ryan053 OP pro stock R Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,345 Rohnert Park, Ca	so then the #1 tower would be the one that the rotor just passed?

Re: Distributor install question [Re: ryan053] #100596 08/07/08 12:44 AM 08/07/08 12:44 AM
Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 11,543 chicagoland,usa B buildanother I Live Here
buildanother I Live Here B Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 11,543 chicagoland,usa	That's it, that's the whole "before top dead center" deal. When the piston gets to the top, the spark has already fired that cylinder.

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