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removed distributor but forgot to mark the position of rotor
Pull the crank pulley around to TDC.
pulleys have no Top Dead Center (just in case, dennie, you don't have a clew what TDC stands for, a likely case). Pulleys are round. Therefore a pulley can not have a TDC. pulleys mounted to the front of the crankshaft on engines where a belt power takeoff is installed *usually* (but not always) have a mark to show ****when cylinder # ------ 1 -------- is at Top Dead Center****. This mark can be used to show when #1 piston is at the top of its stroke but can NOT be used to determine whether the piston (in a 4-cycle engine) is at the top of the compression stroke (when you need spark) or at the top of its exhaust stroke/the beginning of its intake stroke. A mechanic who installs the distributor in the 50-50 hopes of having it timed right, tries the engine to see if it backfires, if it does, takes out the distributor and resets it 180* around is no mechanic at all. He is a fraud who should be sent to jail for stealing money from customers. by the frickin way dennie, "ASE Certified Master Auto Technician and Marine Engineer in training", next time you are "installing" (I use the word loosely) a distributor and find somehow once again yet another time you installed the thing backwards, instead of removing the distributor and then turning over the engine a full turn and reinstalling the distributor, just move the ignition wires around the dist cap 180*. That would take maybe ten seconds for even a "Marine Engineer in training" like you. geesh, somebody hired this guy to fix what? |