How to Set Distributor Gear on a 89 318 UPDATED

How to Set Distributor Gear on a 89 318

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  2. kiss

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    the blade goes into a gear, so no you do not add together a gear to the lesser of information technology like most other distributors have
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    What you are missing is an intermediate shaft

    This is driven by the camshaft, and the upper role of information technology engages the distributor, while the lower part engages the oil pump
    (The flat spot yous see on the bottom of the distributor goes into this shaft)
    So when you swap distributors, the intermediate shaft stays in the engine

    If you ever change over to a high pressure oil pump you may want to supercede that shaft, but at this point I wouldn't worry about information technology

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    Cheers Kevin for the quick response. And then you are saying that I just pull the old out and slide the new one in and that's it.
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  7. krazykuda

    krazykuda Well-Known Member FABO Gold Fellow member How-To Section Editor

    Pull the distributor cap off the old 1 earlier pulling information technology out and note where the rotor is pointing to, then install the new one so the rotor points in the same direction...

    Some distributors are 90° off and you may need to readjust the spark plug wires on the distributor cap to compensate, but information technology's an easy gear up if yous need to do it...

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      65Val Boilerplate Length Fellow member

      That'due south one method...I've only pulled the inter. shaft out and turned information technology 90* to friction match the new dizzy...easy, peasy...
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      I would not screw with the gear no matter what. Pull the cap, bump wrench the engine until it's on TDC and look is the rotor pointing to no6 or no1? Pull the dist, drib in the new one with the rotor pointing at or "closest" to aforementioned as the quondam, and if it was i, plug the no1 wire into where the new rotor points. If it was on 6, dittoo....Plug the no6 wire wherever that rotor points

      Set your timing and you are done

      Co-ordinate to "ratvon" I never work on annihilation so I don't know

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      • 65Val

        65Val Average Length Member

        To each his own, I guess. It actually doesn't thing where the gear is oriented...information technology'south where the rotor is that counts. As long as the rotor is in the same spot before and after, the engine runs the same.
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        No the rotor doesn't thing, either. What matters is that the rotor is firing the no1 plug when information technology should be. I've said this before.......you lot could throw the gear in with your optics closed, then toss the dist in right subsequently it. And then line up your timing "where you desire timing" static, throw the no1 plug wire at the rotor IF YOU have no1 piston on compression, and it will run.

        Since this dist doesn't look much manufactory, information technology actually isn't correct or wrong......unless a couple of wires are short and you take to rotate things to get them to fit

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        Yes, the rotor does matter. If you don't desire to fart with the wires, then the rotor HAS to point at the wire that was firing when he removed the old lightheaded, so, line that up, motility the gear to line upwardly with the blade and, poof, it runs!

        Del...not here to debate...has worked for me, many times. Do information technology whatever way you like. Just sayin'.......

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        I realize, but this might confuse the guy. All I'm sayin is you can move the wire, if you don't want to move the rotor/ gear. Perchance you are non stating that every bit clearly. I hold..........different means.........

        My first auto was a 57 Chev 265. Hell I didn't KNOW there was a 'right' way to do the distributor wires. I was in a gas station (summer of 66) and the gas jock says, "how does it run, it's out of time?"

      • Val, Del, you lot guys can misfile a novice with the dorsum and forth. For the novice'south sake, I tend to hold with Del. Don't screw with the gear.

        Pull the cap and note location of rotor, drop the new distributor in with the button located at that spot. Piece of cake enough.

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        krazykuda Well-Known Member FABO Gilded Member How-To Section Editor

        I came hither for an statement....

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        • 65Val

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          Mike...some dizzy'due south come with the blade orientated in a different position compared to the rotor position...ie: 4spdragtop Steve's state of affairs recently.

          (Photograph credit - 4spdragtop)

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          Lamentable, late to the party. Proper clocking should be checked before installing. Curious as to whether all "Mopar" brand benefactor's ace clocked the same. If the off shore built products aren't, I would question their quality. Cheers
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          Mike...those pics I posted were from 4spdragtop's recent dizzy bandy, due to inferior running. Both his featherbrained'south were, he says, "Mopar" ones, but were different years...one of them out of his truck, I believe. As you tin can run into, the rotor's are lined up, merely the "blade" is not. My contention is you lot tin can but movement the inter. shaft to line up with the "blade" of each dizzy, and the engine will run properly, without having to motility whatever plug wires.

          Too, I was looking at a spare cap I have, and #1 plug wire tower is actually marked "1", so if y'all go by that, i of those dizzys will have to take the inter shaft clocked to match.

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            65Val Boilerplate Length Member

            Then, your two were clocked the same...lucked out there.
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