Distributor install tip
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Melting Slicks
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
Distributor install tip
This is not my tip but I forgot the couple of members who suggested it in a previous thread. To those that did, THANK YOU!!!
For those of us who can get the distributor to drop in on the right tooth, but fight like crazy to get the oil pump shaft to line up, here's the tip I was referring to:
With the distributor installed and teeth engaged, but not quite fully seated because the oil pump shaft is not engaged, just BUMP THE STARTER.
I tried it tonight and it worked like a charm. Getting that stinking oil pump shaft to line up used to take me an hour easy, trial and error, removing and reinstalling the distributor, turning the oil pump shaft just a little at a time.
To the guys that suggested this method THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
It's like getting a phobia cured!
For those of us who can get the distributor to drop in on the right tooth, but fight like crazy to get the oil pump shaft to line up, here's the tip I was referring to:
With the distributor installed and teeth engaged, but not quite fully seated because the oil pump shaft is not engaged, just BUMP THE STARTER.
I tried it tonight and it worked like a charm. Getting that stinking oil pump shaft to line up used to take me an hour easy, trial and error, removing and reinstalling the distributor, turning the oil pump shaft just a little at a time.
To the guys that suggested this method THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!
It's like getting a phobia cured!
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Melting Slicks
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
Originally Posted by AGVI
Dumb question. How exactly do you 'bump' a starter?
thanks, Les
thanks, Les
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Melting Slicks
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From: Deltona (son of Deland and DAYTONA) FL
Originally Posted by gerry72
You can also pull the distributor and turn the pump shaft into alignment with a screwdriver, then re-seat it.
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Cool tip. I will try to remember that one the next time I have to do this job. Last time I used the screwdriver method. I must have got lucky cause I got it pretty quickly.
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I fought this problem this week and a fellow CF member came over to my house and showed me the best way to get this done. I was off 1 tooth on the alignment to #1 and we could not get the car timed. What he did was to 'walk the distributor around in a clockwise direction' until it line up were we needed it it. By walking around he would lift the dist out just enough to turn it and then drop it back down. This would always line up the oil pump slot each time. We then just kept doing it till it was at the right spot and locked it down and timed. Worked like a champ.
Thanks Dave.
Thanks Dave.
