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SILVER Star
I’ve been putting off this dizzy redropping procedure as the engine runs pretty well now. However, I have nothing recent to compare it to. I believe the engine is not putting out its full power when compared to how my F155 engines performed in my past (1969 & 1972). Also my 1988 fj62 2F had much more power than what I’m experiencing. Below is my situation along with a few questions. Note the strange timing marks (not 7 degree BB or TDC line) on flywheel shown below.
Background:
The distributor is a Non USA small cap type with vacuum advance/retard.
The dizzy is positioned so the advance knob is pushed up against block. This has caused the advancer diaphram to not function. @JohnnyC points this out in post #16
The wires on cap are currently routed so they work but it’s wrong. E.g. where #1 wire should be it goes to #6 and #6 wire goes to #1 as shown...
Timing:
When I hooked my timing light to cylinder #1 plug wire, and adjusted the advance/retard function on light, I was not able to see the BB or Line anywhere. What kept showing were these scratch marks ( that appear to be intentional) shown below with blue arrow. (Need to look closely as image is dark).
Questions:
1. Before I redrop dizzy, can someone explain, given the information provided about the dizzy positioned wrong, why the timing light was not hitting near the BB and only near blue arrow scratch markings?
2. Since the blue arrow is well after TDC mark, should this not retard the timing so much the engine would not run?
3. Is it possible for flywheel to be installed wrong?
4. When I rotate the flywheel to compression stroke at TDC Cyl#1, the rotor is hitting the #1 cylinder wire on cap as it should. Because of this, shouldn’t the BB come into view in flywheel window with light?
Background:
The distributor is a Non USA small cap type with vacuum advance/retard.
The dizzy is positioned so the advance knob is pushed up against block. This has caused the advancer diaphram to not function. @JohnnyC points this out in post #16
The wires on cap are currently routed so they work but it’s wrong. E.g. where #1 wire should be it goes to #6 and #6 wire goes to #1 as shown...
Timing:
When I hooked my timing light to cylinder #1 plug wire, and adjusted the advance/retard function on light, I was not able to see the BB or Line anywhere. What kept showing were these scratch marks ( that appear to be intentional) shown below with blue arrow. (Need to look closely as image is dark).
Questions:
1. Before I redrop dizzy, can someone explain, given the information provided about the dizzy positioned wrong, why the timing light was not hitting near the BB and only near blue arrow scratch markings?
2. Since the blue arrow is well after TDC mark, should this not retard the timing so much the engine would not run?
3. Is it possible for flywheel to be installed wrong?
4. When I rotate the flywheel to compression stroke at TDC Cyl#1, the rotor is hitting the #1 cylinder wire on cap as it should. Because of this, shouldn’t the BB come into view in flywheel window with light?