Distributor driving gear, off by one tooth?

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Well folks, I come back with excitement and great shame.

Engine started, woohoo!!

The problem was… I am an idjit!!

Of course the position of the drive gear does not matter. Duh :slight_smile:

I just simply got 1 and 6 wrong.

When the camshafts are set with the tool, cyl 6 is at TDC and the rotor should fire cyl 6, not cyl 1…

That’s it. (oh I also set the 1213 distributor to advance curve 2 as advised above).

Now, there is still something disconcerting: at TDC, the rotor has already mostly passed the no.6 HT lead… but it fires.

Now I will write 100 times:

“I will not ask stupid questions on the forum, when all I need to do is double check my shoddy work, I am an idiot”.

Thank you for your patience folks :slight_smile:

Now, putting that engine back in the car…

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That’s good because if you add vacuum and centrifugal advances (so earlier spark) you don’t want it to fire empty, right? :slightly_smiling_face:
If it runs with the it is all fine. Glad you made it, I struggled too! No shame.

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