<VV> Distra Butte Or

[J R Read_HML]

Hey Roger,

I think most of us go by the stamping on the top shroud for which cylinder 
is which.  Is yours on backward?  Oh, won't go on that way.... This comes 
dangerously close to which end of the engine is the FRONT and I don't want 
to see that one get started again.

This subject has gone a while now, so I'm not sure the "exact" original 
question or all that has been said.  I believe that it was mentioned the 
lines (alignment marks) on the inner and outer portions of the HB are in 
alignment AND that the alignment mark is pointing down instead of up.

Now, I've had (at least one) instance of installing the distributor 180 
degrees from where it SHOULD have been.  That of course gives you a spark at 
the top of the exhaust stroke and I don't recall the engine running like 
that (well sort of), but lots of backfires and pops associated with that. 
It only takes an instant to figure that one out.

I've also had (at least one) instance where I could not advance the 
distributor far enough - the vacuum canister ran into something (the coil if 
I recall correctly) before I could make that engine sort of run.  The 
solution to that was to move the plug wires around - one hole and back the 
advance back down to something that looked normal by the eyeball.  Started 
and ran JF after that.

So, I'm suggesting that this distributor may be improperly installed - but 
not necessarily 180 degrees off.  OR... as someone has suggested, there make 
be a broken or missing woodruff key which would account for the mark to be 
at the bottom - again NOT specifically 180 degrees off.

Later, JR

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Gault" <r.gault at sbcglobal.net>
To: "Corvair List" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 6:22 PM
Subject: Re: <VV> Distributor....180 Degrees off


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> Are we absolutely sure that #1 is #1?
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> Roger
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