[Tigers] Distributor continued

[Tony Lang]

 Tom, you misunderstood what I meant. I sent  a message earlier that I always rotate the timing to the distributor with rotor pointing at number one, on compression PRIOR to removing the distributor, not after it was out. It will go back in the same way it came out. If he moved the timing now, he would have to get it  on TDC and compression then replace the distributor. My first message, which was also sent to the list didn't post, it has taken several weeks to get the owner to fix what was causing my messages not to post. Sorry for any confusion I may have caused. Tony Lang (TtT)
      From: Tom Witt via Tigers <tigers at autox.team.net>
 To: Stu <sabre2tgr at gmail.com>; tigers at autox.team.net 
 Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 8:40 PM
 Subject: Re: [Tigers] Distributor continued
   
No, don’t do that. The shaft may not move and you will alter thetiming (as it relates to the original position)! I just feel uncomfortable advising the movement of gears that aren't properly meshed. Not saying othershaven’t done that but I’d rather be cautious.  When I stated you will notlose timing I was referring to the rotation of the oil pump shaft – only. Theoil pump itself doesn’t matter to any timing relationship. It just needs to beindexed to the distributor (hex) so it can turn.  The camshaft is turned bythe crank via the timing chain. The camshaft gear turns the distributor gear andthe hex shaft (from the bottom of the distributor) turns to oilpump.    From: Stu Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 3:29 PMTo: Tom Witt Cc: Tiger Net Subject: Re: [Tigers] Distributor continued Hmmm... since the gear is atleast partly engaged, I should be able to rotate the engine a bit and not loosetiming, right?  So if I put it in 4th and pushed the car back and forthmaking minor adjustments to the rotor position, shouldn't I be able toeventually match the alignment of the pump shaft? Stu On Fri, May 26, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Tom Witt <atwittsend at verizon.net> wrote:

    You are correct. The hex drive shaft for the oil pump is not lining up with the distributor. There are no timing issues with the oil pump so just rotate the hex shaft as needed (it is a guessing game – a little this way, a little that way). Whatever you can get down on the shaft will do.  Just be careful not to lift the shaft (which has been known to happen if you use a socket on a long extension). Otherwise you will then have to get the shaft back into the oil pump.      From: Stu via Tigers  Sent: Friday, May 26, 2017 12:00 PM To: Tiger Net  Subject: [Tigers] Distributor continued     Ok, I got the distributor out, cleaned everything up, and went to put it back in.  Problem.  It will only go all the way down with the gear one tooth off from where it came out.  If I start putting it in with the rotor pointing where it stopped as I pulled it out, the gear engages and it looks like it will rotate into the right position, but it won't go down all the way.  If I start with it one tooth ccw, it goes in just fine, but the rotor is not in the original position.  I took a "before" picture before I pulled it out, so I know where the rotor was pointing.   Nothing has moved,  the tranny is in neutral, no power on at all.  I'm assuming that this must relate to the oil pump drive not engaging.  What do I do now?   Stu


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