where does #1 go( said in a austin powers voice)

ha ok , depends which way you go .

 

Good Point!

 

turning the distributor advances or retards timing. It matters where its pointed.

you need to turn the engine over manually and get piston #1 at tdc then drop in the distributor with it pointing to #1. Then put the cap on it and start placing wires.

I can't tell from your picture if your off or not.

When you find out "where does #1 do" its time to ask "who does #2 work for!" again Austin Powers voice!

 

where does #1 go

(in best dr. evil voice)
number one goes on the side of the garage.
number two?
you better go in the house...

 

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Is this for the HEI set-up only that he number one has to be on the correct terminal on the cap or is the stock cap the same way or different?

 

in the link pat posted the pic is this one with #1 being at 12 oclock which would be on the other side than what Warloc and othesr use ,am I wrong? http://members.toast.net/rbuchholz/heiexp.html

 

with 225 at TDC ,on compression ,if I pull the cap ,the rotor is pointing to where I have#1 (in my picture). how could I be off 2 termnials.? where did I go wrong?

 

All I can say is WOW.I pulled my dizzy moved it to the proper spot , clocked oil pump ,set it back in , repositioned the wires ,timed it to 7.5 and.....................
man it runs SMOOTH , no intermitent dropped cyl.it has been in the wrong spot since 1998
always ran ok,but now with out the miss.can't wait to drive it somewhere.the streets better be clear......................... THANKS ALL WHO HELPED ME ,,,mucho beers for everyone..............................:stout::stout::stout::stout::stout::stout:
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thanks Sparky ,for having such a great site full of helpful minions
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Could you take some more pictures of it in the correct place for future reference?

 

Any hot peice of metal can ignite a air fuel vapor, throw in a spark at the top of the compression stroke and your going to get your moneys worth! Glad you got it fixed! Your gas mileage should go up too! If you have a carb might want to tune that now that your getting proper spark

 

Where did u get that distributor i want to get a hei for my jeep ? But i dont want to spend 300 like the conversion kits are ? I need the part number and where u got it from?

 

Would that location for the Number 1 wire be the same for a 231 odd-fire HEI? My #1 is two positions counter-clockwise from Warloch's picture (nearest to the vacuum advance).

 

Huh. It's always run like a champ, but the gas mileage has never been very good. I'll switch it around to match Warloch's pictures. Thank you.

 

After all this fun talking about the hei I had to go out an look at the jeep. I have mine set up just like Warlocks. EFI will help your gas mileage