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 Posted: 05-20-2009 12:05 am
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Dan (Florida)

 

Joined: 03-16-2005
Location: Ormond Beach, Florida USA
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 You have to loosen it   in order to move the distributor back into time but dont loosen it much. Just enough to where you can tap the distributor around with a hammer and long screwdriver and not have the distributor pop out of its drive.  Find #1 top dead center and try to set it to the #1 plug wire. You may have to move the wires around on the cap a few times but sooner or later it will reward you by starting. 

While you have the distributor out check the shaft for end play.  If the shaft moves in and out too much,  it will hop out of the drive easier and there you sit beside the highway  out of time and maybe with a chewed up rotor from contacting the distributor cap. Fix it now!!!   I added a flat washer under the drive to keep it in place.

In no time you will be passing suv's at 80 and not even thinking about distributors.

Mine was worse than yours. 

I passed up a first place trophy sunday to avoid a rainstorm and found the drive home was better than the cheesy trophy, and didn't get wet at all.

Dan