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Re: timing facts

To: "Barney Gaylord" <barneymg@ntsource.com>,
Subject: Re: timing facts
From: "Andrew B. Lundgren" <lundgren@byu.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2001 10:56:22 -0700
Oh it'll go in backwards alright.  I have done it, without forcing it,
on a '77 engine....  Wouldn't start, but it did sputter...

On Wed, 04 Jul 2001 09:14:18 -0500, Barney Gaylord wrote:

>True.  But on an MG that is not easy to do, because the dizzy drive is
>keyed off center at the connection between the dizzy and the drive gear, so
>it can'r be installed backward.  The only way to change the indexing of the
>distributor rotor is to remove the drive gear from the block, rotate it and
>reinstall it.  Or maybe remove the drive dog from the bottom of the dizzy
>and install that backwards.

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Andrew Lundgren
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