Okay folks, just which post on the distributor corresponds with cylinder no.
6?
I foolishly ripped into this project w/o determining exactly where 6 is, and
there seems to be some disagreement amongst all the discussion here.
Is it (looking at the dist. from the side, the front of the car to your right)
at the top, closest to the block/water pump
at the 1:30 position, angled towards the water pump
at 3:00, facing the front of the car
or at 4:30, angled away from the block
My rotor is angled towards the 4:30 mark, a 45 degree angle, at the point
when I’m assuming the no. 6 cyl. is approaching the top. It then takes a
small rotation of the engine (which I normally miss when blipping the starter
w/ the key) to reach the 17 BTDC mark.
Slap on the wires and check for a spark. And no start. So what am I doing
wrong here?
Dylan,On ours, it’s the one closest to the power-steering pump filler cap. Alex 79xj6 Copper925@aol.com wrote:
Okay folks, just which post on the distributor corresponds with cylinder no.
6?
I foolishly ripped into this project w/o determining exactly where 6 is, and
there seems to be some disagreement amongst all the discussion here.
Is it (looking at the dist. from the side, the front of the car to your right)
at the top, closest to the block/water pump
at the 1:30 position, angled towards the water pump
at 3:00, facing the front of the car
or at 4:30, angled away from the block
My rotor is angled towards the 4:30 mark, a 45 degree angle, at the point
when I’m assuming the no. 6 cyl. is approaching the top. It then takes a
small rotation of the engine (which I normally miss when blipping the starter
w/ the key) to reach the 17 BTDC mark.
Slap on the wires and check for a spark. And no start. So what am I doing
wrong here?
Okay folks, just which post on the distributor corresponds with cylinder
no.
6?..
Believe it or not, I was just into this yesterday after re-routing my
spark plug wires. I discovered that the ONLY way to get it right is as
follows. 1. Manually rotate the engine until the zero deg./TDC mark is
lined up with the indicator on the main engine pulley. 2. Pull the
distributor cap off. 4. Look which direction the rotor is facing.
This is your #1 position for the 1st cylinder spark plug near the
firewall. 5. Looking downward at the distributor, it will be turning
ANTI-CLOCKWISE when running. Just re-do the spark plug wires starting
from the #1 position. Note: It is possible to rotate the entire
distributor plus 60 deg. or minus 60 deg. to actually relocate the #1
position. Mine just happens to appear at the top at about the 11:00
area as you indicate. It’s the LOBE for the pick-up that actually
fires whichever plug is aligned to the #1 position. From here on it’s
simple.
The firing order on my 86 VDP is 1-5-3-6-2-4 which I beleive is the same
for all
SII & SIII. (Don’t know about the SI, but it’s probably the same).
The plugs are numbered from the rear to the front of the engine.