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Re: MGB Starting Problem

To: "House of Windsor Galleries" <artforu@earthlink.net>, <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: MGB Starting Problem
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@MGAguru.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:39:57 -0500
At 01:06 PM 7/25/03 -0700, House of Windsor Galleries wrote:
>....
>On reassembly I noticed that the distributor drive shaft was 180 degrees 
>out. .... static timed the engine to 7 degrees BTDC.  .... went to start 
>her up. Nothing.

Since the dizzy drive was 180d out, the plug wires were also 180d out to 
make it run.  You may have fixed one but not the other.  With the dizzy 
drive gear installed right, the terminal on the dizzy cap closest to #1 
plug would be the #1 wire.  Firing order is 1-3-4-2 anti-clockwise around 
the cap.  If the drive gear is 180d out, then the terminal on the cap 
closest to #1 plug will need to be connected to the #3 plug, and firing 
order is the same.

Remove rocker cover.  Rotate engine to TDC when both valves on #1 are 
closed (compression cycle).  If the rockers on cylinder 1 are rocking at 
TDC, give the engine one complete turn.  Remove dizzy cap and check 
position of the rotor.  Whichever terminal the rotor is pointing at will be 
the #1 plug wire, and firing order from there is still 1-3-4-2.

Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://MGAguru.com

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