Gomer50
Chief Petty Officer
- Joined
- Sep 5, 2009
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- 507
Here's the story I had a bad trigger and got a replacement off of ebay(very good condition).Installed it according to the book (not my first time doing this) and put my original carbs back on after rebuild them. Started right up however she would not idle below 1800 RPM.Check with a timing light and she was running way BTDC and I could not retard the distributor any further back.So I made sure I found TDC with the dial ind. and looked where my distributor gear arrow was pointing looked good,and decided to look at the inside of the distributor cap to see where the rotor was pointing.Well it is pointing past the number one cylinder when lined up this way.So I thought let me move this counter clockwise so the rotor is just barely hitting number 1cylinder @ TDC.Put in back together started up now idles @ 600. sounds halfway decent.Just real curious looked at the tang on the distributor pully and @ TDC it shows its about a 1/2 to 3/4 in before the tang mark on the distributor mounting bracket.What do you guy's think??