I would believe it's just easier to move the gear 180 rather than the tang.
If you can remember the angle it came out you can easily reinsert it. Took
me about 5 minutes.
Getting off that spring wire was no picnic although the more you do it the
easier it gets.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Laury" <vlaury@earthlink.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2001 2:15 PM
Subject: Fw: distributor question
> >Stan Wrote - It's a relatively easy process to change the distributor
> timing 180 degrees. Remove the distributor, remove the spring retainer
for
> the pin in the drive dog on the bottom of the distributor shaft, slide
the
> pin out, rotate the drive dog 180 degrees, reinstall the pin and then the
> spring retainer and put the dizzy back on the engine.
> --------------------
>
> That is beautiful!! Thank you Stan! What a dope I've been! On Roman's car,
> The last car I corrected this, I pulled the gear out and played with it
for
> an hour or so until I got it right!
>
> All I had to do was reverse the tang!!?!!?! How wonderfully obvious and
> simple! I'm helping out a member with the same problem. Now, it will be
> easy!
>
> Victor
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