Posted by Dan (NH) [173.9.49.14] on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 16:07:56 :
In Reply to: Both straight up, or both point at each other = same. posted by Chriscase [107.201.17.9] on Tuesday, April 29, 2014 at 15:40:39 :
When you took it apart they "the dots" were together. Don't assume the distributor is correct as these trucks are old and someone may have put the distributor off a plug or two from the normal (cylinder 1).
If the distributor shows plug wire two firing and the wire actually goes to one of the cylinders at the power stroke, they may have "assumed" that this was their number one cylinder and worked their way down the firing order after that.
A good example of this was on Gas Monkey garage where they had an old V8 and changed out the cap and wires only to discover someone installed the distributor off a plug terminal as it was barking flames through the carb. They just moved the plug wires over one terminal and ta-da it started right up.
So I would set the timing marks on the sprockets to where they should be per the manual. You may need to check and reinstall the distributor, or just locate the first cylinder that fires again when the power stroke is correct. If you are this far, you might as well fix it per the book so the next time it will be "normalized" to cylinder one.
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