| Re: hei cap orientation [message #328380 is a reply to message #328379] |
Fri, 19 January 2018 04:25   |
Ken Burton
Messages: 10030
Registered: January 2004
Location: Hebron, Indiana
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The cap has a notch in it so the cap can only go on one way and seat fully on the distributor. I have seen people actually get those caps installed wrong and a couple of those spring retainers latched while th cap is not fully seated. If it is really 180 degrees out, then someone in the past installed the distributor with the rotor in the wrong position and then rotated the distributor body to match the rotor. Or they the wires on the cap to match.
If it has run correctly in the past and you have not loosened the distributor, I would not mess with it now. It will run just fine the way it is. There is no reason for it to have changed. I am working on one here right now that someone installed about 30 degrees out. It bugs me when I look at it, but it is really not a concern to the actual running of the engine. If I end up pulling the distributor for some other reason, then I'll reinstall the distributor in the correct orientation. Otherwise it will stay just like it is now. I have other more important things to fix.
Ken Burton - N9KB
76 Palm Beach
Hebron, Indiana
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