Barracuda woes :(
Yes I know where number 1 is. The rotor however only points at number 5 because of the slot in the drive gear only allows for this. Are you suggesting that I rotate the crank to get the timing closer which would actually move the slot and allow the distributor to drop in with the rotor facing correctly towards number one? Thanks for your help!!!
NO. The distributor gear, as one member puts it, can point to China. The only reason the distributor gear has a specified installation posistion is so that
the assembly line folks can wrench, repeat
so the plug wires "lay nice"
and so tune up guys "see what they expect" to see.
Sounds like all you need to do is the following:
Pull no1 as I suggested, bump the engine until you get compression, and then carefully move the crank to where it is that you want initial time, IE 15* or so BTC
Then pull the cap and see where the rotor points. Wherever this is, plug the no1 wire in there.
If this has "magically changed" then either the cam drive has slipped, or something has slipped in the distributor.
Since the car has seeminly mysteriously got out of time, I would assume NOTHING, and if this were me, I would do exactly as I posted-----
1---check the timing mark with a positive stop
2--check the cam time as best you can
Then set up the engine on no1 compression, 15 or so BTC and see if the distributor rotor still points to the no1 wire. If not, something has changed somewhere
IS THERE ANY possibility that some "friend" has pulled a trick on you?
