[Shop-talk] Firing order problems.

[John T. Blair]

At 05:22 PM 7/25/2011, Steve Hammatt Mount Vernon WA USA wrote:

 >I have something similar to an old tractor engine.  The spec's say 
the firing
 >order should be 1, 3, 4, 2 but it's currently running at 1, 2, 4, 3

In addition to what Eric said, have you checked to see where #1 really is?
I've seen many an engine where the distributor has been installed wrong or
is not where most engines have it - the rotor button pointing to #1 plug.

Check to TDC on #1, then check to see that the rotor button is pointing to the
wire that goes to the #1 plug, and not just pointing to #1 cylinder.

John

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