Best Wires?

[TR3driver]

If you loosen the clamp on the distributor where it bolts into the block - you can rotate the distributor body pretty much anyway you want

But, that won't alter where the rotor is pointing when #1 is ready to fire. Turning the body of the dizzy doesn't change the relationship of the rotor to the camshaft; which is the problem here.

The only way to change that relationship is to either install the dog on the bottom of the dizzy backwards (not recommended, but possible); or the correct method is to disassemble the pedestal under the dizzy so the drive gear's engagement with the camshaft can be changed.

Dale doesn't want to do that, and I don't blame him ... it runs so don't fix it. But as noted, that is the reason the plug wires do not fit as they should.

 

[2wrench]

Praying Mantis... looks like he's not praying, but
maybe should be, if he's slow to move.

 

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[NutmegCT]

Hmmm - isn't there a tachometer drive "pin" that has to be changed too?

Tom

 

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[NutmegCT]

sorry - it's called a "driving dog" and "retaining pin". Several guys here advised me to be *very* careful if I pulled my distributor, not to lose the relation of the pin to a gear (tach?) it has to engage. It's my TR3, but I'm pretty sure the TR6 has approximately the same issue.

Tom