Jump to content
SAU Community

Distributor leads to plugs help 88 pintara

roadsta

By roadsta,
in General Maintenance

 Share

Recommended Posts

roadsta Newbie

roadsta

Posted
Posted

Hi can someone plz help, some dickhead has pulled the leads from te distributor to the plugs fom my 88 pintara dual coil,the family wagon, now its stuffed i need it to get to work the mrs is pissed off and i have no idea what im doing, can someone plz help? cant buy a manual locally either this sux!

a mud map or piix would be great thnx!

blind_elk Grand Master

blind_elk

Posted
Posted

Bring the engine around to TDC on #1. Remove the dizzy cap - the rotor should (probably) be pointing somewhere near "8 o'clock". Then work out which pole of the cap matches the rotor position - that's #1. Then, anticlockwise, they are 3 4 2.

Guessing similar for the second dizzy - or whatever it uses.

The Dan Grand Master

The Dan

Posted
Posted
Bring the engine around to TDC on #1. Remove the dizzy cap - the rotor should (probably) be pointing somewhere near "8 o'clock". Then work out which pole of the cap matches the rotor position - that's #1. Then, anticlockwise, they are 3 4 2.

Guessing similar for the second dizzy - or whatever it uses.

You forgot to tell him that he needs to make sure it is TDC on the compression stroke. If it is in exhaust stroke then he will be 180 degrees out.

An easy way to tell is get someone to turn the engine over and hold your finger over the plug hole on #1(obviously you will need to remove plug #1). As the compression stroke comes around, the piston will force air out of the plug hole. Then you can keep turning the crank around until the mark on the pulley lines up with TDC....That is true TDC.

Once you have that you can then locate #1. Then turn the crank some more with the distributor cap off so you can see which direction the rotor button moves in.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing


  • Similar Content

  • Latest Posts

    • Kinkstaah
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By Kinkstaah · Posted

      Ah yes but were you responsible? In the time I've had it (just before Christmas) I spun off the track twice and drove into things twice, so four separate incidents.. in two outings. Luckily I have a full OEM GTR front end to put on which is hopefully not a precursor for further, future, more expensive mistakes to come. It is some consolation that anyone who would want to buy my Altia bar would have to paint it anyway, the guards, too. (if they can get over the asymmetry). Hopefully over the weekend I will disassemble and see how badly things are bent. From what it looks like, the headlight has actually just been pushed back and bent the headlight support (which .. somehow... crushed the guard in). I guess the headlight plastic is strong stuff.
    • The Bogan
      Mistakes were made, my R34 Story

      By The Bogan · Posted

      These things happen And I believe "we, the people, who modify stuff, and actually use it, cannot have nice things" It's just a shame that it happened so soon after paint  I still win the award for quickly destroying newly painted panels I think, as my car came back from the paint shop all nice and shiny, until about 4 hours later when the boot was destroyed by a wayward locker that was blown around by the wind.... What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and poorer.....dooh
    • GTSBoy
      R33 disk brake size

      By GTSBoy · Posted

      This. And also, the rotor thickness is constrained by the calipers. Cannot be much thicker, if at all. Cannot be much thinner, if at all. New rotors are....fairly cheap. Turbo calipers can still be picked up for sensible money. Arguably, the best thing is to get R32 calipers and put them on mount spacers on 324mm discs. That's about the cheapest and easiest way to get quite large brakes that are essentially bolt on. And that's despite maintaining for years that the R32 calipers are not the best choice because they seem to be more flexy and creaky than the others. If you were prepared to put up with nasty little NA sliding calipers, these will still seem like Brembos by comparison.
    • Yeetus
      R33 disk brake size

      By Yeetus · Posted

      A quick Google said 297mm..
    • blind_elk
      R33 disk brake size

      By blind_elk · Posted

      Why would you not fit the biggest possible brakes?
×
×
  • Create New...