Re: [alfa] ignition timing

["Gwynne W. Spencer" <gwynnes1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is the cap on correctly ??

Gwynne Spencer

At 02:31 PM 6/7/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>I must be being colossally dense, but I just cannot
>figure this out.
>
>I'm putting my engine (1750) back together, and at
>cylinder 1 TDC, the distributor rotor is pointing at
>the lead for cylinder 3.  The weird thing is that my
>Autobook manual says that at TDC, the rotor should be
>pointing to the front of the car, which it is.  So it
>seems that either the manual is wrong, and the rotor
>at TDC should be pointing toward the left side of the
>car (which in fact it is at TDC in my 2000), or
>somehow the distributor is off 90 degrees.  But I
>never moved the distributor.  And the range on the
>clamp would not allow me to move it 90 degrees anyway.
>
>
>If the manual is wrong, though, then it seems that my
>rotor is pointing in the wrong direction, and it
>should be pointing to the left of the car.  But how
>could that happen, since I did not remove the
>crankshaft or distrubutor?
>
>I really must be missing something very obvious.
>
>Mark
>
>
>
>
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