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Old 12-28-2012, 09:56 PM
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setting 3vze distributor

When tearing down the engine I forgot to mark the rotor position, so I set the crank to zero and the rotor on the #1 point, and now when I try to start it it only pops and backfires. Does anyone know the correct place to set the rotor too?
Old 12-28-2012, 11:07 PM
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You may have been off 360 degrees try rotating engine and reinstall distrubutor.
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What he means is you have the distributor installed 180° off. So you'll need to remove the distributor, rotate the crank 360°, then reinstall it. So that the rotor is pointing at the #1 point when the #1 cylinder is at TDC of the compression stroke, instead of at TDC of the exhaust stroke.
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thanks, that was exactlly my problem, flipped it 180 and it fired right up
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