If you have removed the drive dog from the block then on re-insertion you
can get it in any one of six or eight (depending on how many 'teeth' it has,
can't remember) positions only one of which is correct. If you have
dismantled and reassembled the distributor then you can get its drive shaft
180 degrees out in relation to its cam shaft. But if you have merely
removed and replaced the distributor it only goes back in, fully, one way.
If one is not going to ensure things are fully seated or fully tightened
before attempting to run the engine then the dizzie is the leats of one's
potential problems.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@byu.net>
To: "MG list" <mgs@autox.team.net>; "MonteMorris" <mmorris@nemr.net>; "Paul
Hunt (Telewest)" <paul.hunt1@blueyonder.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 4:08 AM
Subject: Re: time or tune first?
> trust me on this one. It is. it happens 2 ways that I know of from
> personal experience with two different engines.
>
> 1: You have the engine apart for a few weeks, then upon reinstallaion
> you carefully check to make sure you are not 180 out (because you have
> heard of this or already experienced) and then slide the dizzy in
> knowing it is correct and click it into place where it feels good and
> tight and clamp it on. The edge of the tongue grabs enough to spin the
> dizzy, you don't notice that it is not fully seated because it is in
> all the way (or so it seems) and you don't remember what it looked like
> before.
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