I have one of those in a box. It came on my first Tr3A racecar and it drove
me crazy until I figured it out.
Bob Kramer
rkramer3@austin.rr.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: "'Martin Sukey'" <mjsukey@eriecoast.com>; "6 pack digest"
<6pack@autox.team.net>; "FOT" <fot@autox.team.net>; "Triumph List"
<Triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 11:54 PM
Subject: RE: Non VTR help needed (distributor)
> Doesn't really matter where the distributor points, that's just a handy
> thing to have a standard approach. Usually you install the disty with the
> #1
> cylinder on it's firing stroke (both valves closed) and the rotor pointing
> at the #1 spark plug. All that's happened is someone pinned the drive on
> backwards. It only goes in the engine one way (the drive tongue is
> offset),
> but you can drill the hole and pin the drive anywhere. Mallory
> distributors
> are usually supplied with no drive. You drill and pin on your own. Someone
> did you a "favor".
>
> All you need to do is slip in the distributor, turn the engine to just
> before TDC with both valves closed on #1, and rotate the distributor
> housing
> until the points are just starting to open. That should be close enough to
> start the engine. Wherever the rotor is pointing is where your #1 plug
> wire
> is going to be. The rest of the wires go in order, counterclockwise
> #2,4,3.
> (I'm assuming TR3/4). Now start it up and set your timing.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-fot@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-fot@autox.team.net] On Behalf
> Of Martin Sukey
> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:05 PM
> To: 6 pack digest; FOT; Triumph List
> Subject: Non VTR help needed (distributor)
>
> Well my Mallory dual point distributor finally arrived today after being
> back ordered since February from more than one source. So I go to put that
> sucker in tonight and it has me totally confused. If I look at my stock
> distributor when the rotor is pointing directly at the number one cap
> terminal the points are closed and are in the center of the flat dwell
> area
> of the distributor cam. When I take my new distributor and place the
> rotor
> pointing directly at the number one cap terminal the points are fully open
> and on the lobe of the distributor cam. TOTALLY OPOSITE. I have looked
> at
> this for the last hour thinking that I am missing something and looking at
> it backwards but NO THATS REALY THE WAY IT IS. There is no adjustment.
> So,
> can somebody that knows more about this sort of thing than me explain what
> the heck is going on here?
>
>
>
> Help me, I want to go autoxing Monday:-)
>
> Marty Sukey
>
>
> --
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.15 - Release Date: 5/22/2005
|