180 degrees out?

[Radd Cruisers]

Just tried starting the gasser, sounded like it was running on 2 cylinders.

Could the distributor be 180 out since it was reinstalled?

 

[airon23]

..................yes

 

[Romer]

Its easy to be 180 out. You have to pull the #1 plug and feel the air shoot out, then hand crank to see the ball.

Good luck

 

[Mace]

I have never been able to start a rig 180* out of phase..

 

[dd113]

I have started and run them 180* out. Not well but it ran.

 

[65swb45]

Pull the valve cover and turn the engine over like you're gonna do a factory spec valve adjustment, and check your distributor against the valve timing.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

Thanks, I poked around and pulled the distributor and turned it 180 and it back fired.

Turned it 90 Degrees which I though was not possible and away it went.

 

[65swb45]

Turned it 90 Degrees which I though was not possible and away it went.

That's why you MUST invest in a timing light. It is possible to time by ear way off of the factory mark. Timing like this can lead to severe predetonation problems.

 

[Romer]

Lets clarify something. When you had it at Top Dead Center (TDC) and you pointed the rotor to Spark plug #1, did you point it the actual plug or the point on the dizzy where it connects which is actually between Spark plugs 3 & 4. That would explain why you think your 90 deg out. Or potentially your wires are hooked up wrong.

The only reason I say this is the first time I read to point the rotor at spark plug #1, I thought they meant the actual plug not the connection for the rotor.

 

[Radd Cruisers]

We must of pointed to the number one spark plug.

Human error.

Seems like we do very little gasser work, mostly diesels, guess a timing gun is cheap enough to keep on hand.

Thanks guys.