318 Magnum first fire...timing?
Hopefully someone can answer this with a picture? Is it possible I need to go another tooth to clockwise?
It doesn't matter to the engine, where the drive is pointing; after you re-install the D,and re-synchronize the reluctor to the pole-piece, all that happens is the rotor moves to a new tower. So then you swap your wires over to the proper tower, and away it goes, same-old/same-old.
Where the rotor points to, at #1TDC compression only matters, when you end up with one too-short plug wire, or when it doesn't align with a cap that has a specifically numbered #1 tower. But any good mechanic will figure that out in a few seconds.
You can advance that drive gear to any tooth you want to, and you can still make it run no problem, and the timing lite won't know the difference. In the end, the only thing that changes is which tower becomes #1.
