rbonnett
09-04-2009, 06:59 PM
The little screw holding the condenser fell down into my distributor. OK, off comes the dizzy, got the screw out. Then my neighbor wasn't home to come put a finger in the #1 hole while I turned the crank handle. I pulled all the plugs, but my fan belt just slipped. Then I started reasoning :eek:
The engine hasn't moved, so I have a 50/50 chance of getting the splines on the dizzy shaft in the right way around. If I have it backwards, the timing will be so far off it probably won't even start. Put it back in - sure enough a couple splutters and a good pop through the carb. Undid it - spun the rotor 180 and put it back. Starts right up, runs fine.
Compared to the instructions, this is just so much simpler there has to be something coming back to bite me. Am I paranoid or did I do something really stupid out of impatience?
The engine hasn't moved, so I have a 50/50 chance of getting the splines on the dizzy shaft in the right way around. If I have it backwards, the timing will be so far off it probably won't even start. Put it back in - sure enough a couple splutters and a good pop through the carb. Undid it - spun the rotor 180 and put it back. Starts right up, runs fine.
Compared to the instructions, this is just so much simpler there has to be something coming back to bite me. Am I paranoid or did I do something really stupid out of impatience?