Hey guys. This has been an incredibly slow project with lot of pauses, so I probably missed something along the way.
I put a new cam, chain, heads, intake, etc. Cam installed at zero, no advance no retard.
I thought I marked the distributor and brackets correct but maybe not.
It has spark, it has fuel, so it is probably a timing issue.
Theres no piston to valve contact, and I want to assume the cam is good (zeros lined up).
With the harmonic balancer at TDC, the distributor was 180 degrees off. Ok. I took it out, rotated the tooth, and now at TDC the rotor is pointing to #1.
I thought I am golden now, but no dice. I pulled plug out and it does fire, but I dont have a timing gun to see if it fires at TDC.
As long as rotor is approx at #1, fuel sync should be close enough? I had zero issues when doing this build 15 years ago.
I did have to grind the distributor clamp down because I couldnt tighten it with the distributor at #1 - I probably am off a tooth on the gear when I did the cam install. But as long as the rotor is at #1 at TDC, it doesnt matter right?
Sorry for the primitive questions. I am too busy with work these days and have no more time for projects, and just need to put this back together.
Thanks.