Distributer

[robolab]

Hello Big Healey Friends,
last week I repaired the distributer of my present BJ8 MKIII restoration and was busy with the replacement of the distributer in the engine. For that I looked in various websites for Images of the Motor compartment.
I was astonished that in some engine bay photos of the various restorations on the Internet, the first cylinder in driving direction was connected to the distributer as number 1 (probably the correct counting), in others the rearmost was wired as number 1 to the distributor.
Is the distributer in the latter version assembled incorrectly, or is the correct ignition also possible if cylinder 6 is number 1 at the distributer?

I assume that the distributerpeg in these versions is mounted 180 degrees wrong. Is that correct?

 

[Marvin Gruber]

Gerd,
From what you are describing, yes it sounds like the distr gear( in the engine) was put in 180 out. What I like about the 3000 engine, just screw a long 5/16" bolt into the top of the gear, lift out and reset to proper location.

Marv

 

[steveg]

Gerd,
From what you are describing, yes it sounds like the distr gear( in the engine) was put in 180 out. What I like about the 3000 engine, just screw a long 5/16" bolt into the top of the gear, lift out and reset to proper location.

Marv

The dog teeth are offset. You could drive out the pin and rotate the dog 180 degrees.

 

[Keoke]

The dog teeth are offset. You could drive out the pin and rotate the dog 180 degrees.
- Steve---Just might be what some PO did and got it back on wrong.

 

[red57]

If it's 180 out, just pull & turn the gear as Marvin suggests. That's a lot easier than removing the pin and rotating the dog on the bottom of the dizzy and accomplishes the same thing.