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Old 03-14-2014, 08:50 AM
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Thumbs down The factory!

There are teeth on the distributor gear (not sure how many but it is now "X") or "X" many. Once you have TDC on any cylinder you can start from there. The number of combinations like that are 4 times X. If you want to use #1 cylinder then there are only "X" number of proper locations.

The factory picked the position they did only for consistent assembly at the factory. In this way when the engine was ready for the distributor to be installed on the assembly line they put it facing the way they did so when it went to the next steps things were consistent.

I've worked on literally hundreds of engines from 1 cylinder to 16 or even a bunch with none. About the only ones I ever found to be in the stock orientation were the ones that had never been touched.

There is no right or wrong, right is the points open or the trigger trips on number one cylinder at TDC and the WIRE for #1 is on the lug the rotor points to. It's simple once the idea sinks in.

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