Changing Small Block Heads & Cam Install, is it better to pull engine?
Racer
Joined: Mar 2001
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From: Marion Ia
old school here and definitely not up to the guru status some people seem to have. A tooth off will not stop you from timing a small block chevy. The timing is the relationship between the rotor and the wire in the cap. If you do not care what it looks like you can drop the distributor in mark what terminal on the cap it is pointing to and wire from there. I do not recommend this and with a tach drive you have an added complexity. But being a "tooth" off will not stop you from timing the car.
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Screwing them up since 1969
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Safety Car
Joined: Jan 2009
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From: anchorage ak
old school here and definitely not up to the guru status some people seem to have. A tooth off will not stop you from timing a small block chevy. The timing is the relationship between the rotor and the wire in the cap. If you do not care what it looks like you can drop the distributor in mark what terminal on the cap it is pointing to and wire from there. I do not recommend this and with a tach drive you have an added complexity. But being a "tooth" off will not stop you from timing the car.
Flame me if you need to or show me I am wrong.
Screwing them up since 1969
Flame me if you need to or show me I am wrong.
Screwing them up since 1969
