Re: Re: Don't tell me I totally screwed up

From: Ken Allgood (kenallgood@cox.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 22:16:39 EST


ummmm... No one else has any insight?? :(

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From: "Punch" <2punch.crash2000@AHM.com>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 10:38 PM
Subject: DML: Re: Don't tell me I totally screwed up

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> http://www.moparmusclemagazine.com/howto/38620/
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> ""Ken Allgood"" <kenallgood@cox.net> wrote in message
> news:000901c2e82c$34701180$6501a8c0@ken...
> >
> > Ok so I got it on TDC for cyl #1, adjust rockers. Turn engine clockwise
> to
> > next tick mark, and looking at the distributor, it's now pointing at
> > Cylinder #2 (which this is what got me a little confused before).. so I
> > check the FSM to make sure the firing order and cyl #'s are as I was
told.
> > Sure enough, they were, but what has got me wondering was I noticed that
> the
> > FSM shows that the Distributor rotor rotates clockwise (which the next
> > cylinder going that way would indeed by #8), but when i'm doing it, it's
> > rotating the rotor counter-clockwise. So I turn the crankshaft 45 deg
the
> > other way (and i'm sure you've already guessed), and the rotor did not
> > move... and NOW the rotor is off by a cylinder in the firing order.....
> I'm
> > afraid to ask how much I've screwed up.. And on top of that, why in
the
> > world is the distributor rotor turning counter-clockwise?? I thought
> (maybe
> > incorrectly) that to turn the engine in proper order, when facing the
> engine
> > from the front, turn the crankshaft clockwise......
> > AAAAAACCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
> >
> >
> > Ken Allgood
> > 97 CC SLT 5.2L
> >
> >
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