[Healeys] bringing back the dead

[Alan Seigrist]

Your distributor is not backwards.

Just take the drive dog out of the distributor housing and flip it
around 180 degrees.  It's your drive dog that is in backwards.  Very
common mistake.

Alan

On 11/4/07, RAWDAWGS at aol.com <RAWDAWGS at aol.com> wrote:
> Idiot update. I filed the points and have OK (not great) spark at the  plugs,
> new gas, new fuel pump, and everything is cranking but not catching. I  put
> my finger over the #1 spark plug hone and bumped the starter until I felt
> compression. Dd it until I felt I was at TDC #1, and low and behold there was a
> mark on the pulley that lined up with the pointer. I pulled the cap and the
> rotor was 180 degrees from the #1 lead. I thoughtAha! I pulled the distrib to
> paint the engine and must have put it back in backwards, but have come to  find
>  the distributor only goes in one way. Whats up with that? I   think I am off
> 180 degrees but the car ran when parked 20 years ago and I never  touched the
> engine (except as mentioned above). I think I am missing  something.