not the normal timing question
Drifting
Joined: Jun 2005
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From: Chino Hills CA
There's an old mechanic's trick (probably 'cause I'm an old mechanic). Most everyone knows as you install a chevy distributor you have to start with the rotor about 20 degrees counterclockwise to where you want it to end up, so that the rotor turns as it meshes with the diagonal cut gear, providing of course the oil pump slot lines up. If it misses, you can't go back counterclockwise, but if you lift the distributor slightly til it just disengages and go clockwise around, you can turn the oil pump with you, and get back to where you want to be. After you do this a couple of times, you become an expert.
Burning Brakes
Joined: Feb 2006
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From: AL
i think everyone was just using jlaw68 speak, from his original post.
re-read; this is the meaning of posts #2 and #3 without the complete sentences.
You can't advance timing by turning the rotor. The rotor can't be turned when the distribnutor is installed. Timing is advanced by rotating the distributor body counter clockwise. If proper timing cannot be achieved (not enough advance), the distributor must be lifted up out of the block, and the rotor must be rotated clockwise to gain more adjustment on the distrubutor body. But timing is advanced by rotating the body counter clockwise.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Jan 2003
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From: Tuttle OK
Cruise-In VIII Veteran
Originally Posted by lars
....What...?
Having removed and installed over 200 distributors during my various Tuning for Beer Tours, I thought I was pretty good at distruibutor installation. But I can't figure out what the heck you guys are talking about here. One of us is drunk...
Having removed and installed over 200 distributors during my various Tuning for Beer Tours, I thought I was pretty good at distruibutor installation. But I can't figure out what the heck you guys are talking about here. One of us is drunk...
I thought he was saying that he couldn't turn his dist any further because the vac can was hitting. I've had that happen and had to turn the oil pump drive a little to get stuff to line back up so I had room to turn the dist....
beer for me...
Tech Contributor
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From: At my Bar drinking and wrenching in Lafayette Colorado
If you need to re-clock the distributor, you just do the trick outlined by "Lowbuck" above. I call it "walking the distributor," and I demostrate this simple technique on all the Tuning Tours. The process mentioned by Lowbuck is outlined in detail in my Distributor Installation paper - it works very well, and there is no need to turn the oil pump shaft with a screwdriver. Guess all us old guys know that one...
It's happy hour again. Where's my Martini..?
It's happy hour again. Where's my Martini..?
