re: valve and ignition timing

[Dana Loomis <dloomis@domain.elided>]

Thomas Moll wrote: 

>You are not the first to encounter this problem and thankfully the Italian
>engineers have provided a simple solution. If you take the distributor out
>and look closely at the coupling you will notice that there is a coiled
>spring wire wrapped around it in a machined grove. The spring wire is there
>to keep the pin that holds the coupling to the shaft from sliding out and
>once you gently remove it from the grove you can push out the pin holding
>the coupling onto the shaft and simply rotate it 180 degrees. Voila!

There is an even simpler solution: loosen the pinch bolt on the clamp and
rotate the distributor body 180 degrees.  

Dana Loomis
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