ok, i dont want to screw up, how do you remove the distributor?

 

on my I6 i just unbolted it and then pulled it out...its getting it back in thats the hard part

 

yea my dad said i need to crank the engine back to starting position after i put in my new cam and intake

 

yeah...you have to put it in "top dead center" it should be marked on your timing chain cover and on your harmonic balancer...but sometimes it harder than that

 

yeah taking it out is easy putting it back in is hard. make sure at TDC and not 180 off. I would stongly suggest a dizzy tool

 

If you're not replacing the dizzy all you need to do is take the cap off and mark where the rotor is pointing too, if the dizzy has vacuum advance mark where that's pointing at also.
If you're replacing the dizzy, just unbolt and remove! But when you're installing a new dizzy you'll need to be at TDC on compression stroke! A little tip when marking the location of the rotor and the vacuum advance use a piece of masking tape and a maker! Look at my photo and you'll see the tape with the marker lines on it.


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k thanks!

 

If the number one cylinder is at the top of the piston, thats top dead center right? IS there anyway to screw that up?

 

be careful not to pull out the shaft that spins the oil pump

 

The number one cylinder gets to TDC twice in the 4 stroke engine, once is TDC on the compression stroke and once is TDC on the exhaust stroke, the camshaft rotates twice for each rotation of the crank. If he installs the distributer with the rotor button pointing at the number one cylinder while the number one cylinder is at TDC of the exhaust stroke, the camshaft will be 180 degrees out.