Distributor won't fall in right.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Nov 2003
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From: San Antonio TX
Just an FYI the spacer someone referred to is intended if the block and heads were milled significantly along with the intake to shorten the distance to the cam and oil pump without a special length distributor. 
Race Director
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From: In Dreams There Is Truth Ohio
Originally Posted by redc3
i would never do it that way! you got your dist. gear laying on the cam gear and your gonna turn the engine???? it might work but at what cost to the gears????
Pro
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From: Murphy Texas
Originally Posted by GDaina
Why go through all of that? just put the car in gear and bump it...the crank will rotate, and the slot on the pump and distributor will line up and fall into place...
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From: In Dreams There Is Truth Ohio
Originally Posted by jake1
That may damage the gear and put metal in there...right
When you drop the distributor in, the gears are meshed...you can tell wheather or not the rotor is pointing to the #1 plug, if not, pull the distributor out a little so the rotor spins freely, rotate the rotor so when the gears are fully meshed, the rotor will line up to the #1 wire that's in the factory location, and even if it's not, move the wires....
You can do more harm by putting the screw driver in the distributor hole...dirt from the screw driver or whatever may drop in the hole...Anyway, you have your answer, you've been given more than one way to line up the distributor and the oil pump, it's up to you to figure out which method you're comfortable working with...
Last edited by GDaina; Jan 31, 2005 at 05:23 AM.
Racer
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From: Burlington Ky
We're not talking about a lot of force here. You can spin the dist shaft with what, 2 fingers? It ain't gonna hurt anything, I've been installing them both ways for 20 years. Where you run into problems is getting impatient and trying to force it. I once caught a new guy using a mallet. 
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