| Re: Where exactly is #1 on the distributor cap? |
Subject: Re: Where exactly is #1 on the distributor cap? by toptechx6 on 2008/5/20 16:44:12 Thanks! I understand about the TDC now. Obviously I found it, but I know what you mean about exhaust versus compression and where the rotor was pointed. Lesson learned. As for #1 moving. Yes, I mean on the cap, but I was careless, not 100% sure it really did move, I am not going to worry about it. I'm going to assume it didn't, and I was just a dumbass about how I did it. Another lesson learned the hard way. I said it was running rich... thinking about that, I may have made a mistake. I used anti-sieze on the plugs. I was careful to avoid the electrode, but I did get it pretty far down on the threads. It may have been burning anti-sieze, I didn't run it long enough to let it smooth out, (not that it was running that rough), because the wires aren't dressed. I didn't want to burn them up. Checking the timing is going to be rough. My scale is all rust brown. I can't see any lines. Not sure what to do there. Thanks again. This kind of advice is great to have access to.[/quote] You may have smelled the anti-seize cooking off but if it was not up to operating temperature is WAS running rich, normal operation, they all do until they go into closed loop. If you can get the timing indicator clean enough to see any well defined mark (0, 5, 10) you can time it with an advance style timing light, see how it runs first once you get your wires routed, it may be fine.  |
