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Date:         Mon, 4 Jun 2012 15:29:09 -0400
Reply-To:     Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mike S <mikes@FLATSURFACE.COM>
Subject:      Re: Possible Distributor Drive Shaft issue - Timing
Comments: To: Skip <skiplaubach@COMCAST.NET>
In-Reply-To:  <1872132506.1183280.1338834821343.JavaMail.root@sz0094a.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net>
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On 6/4/2012 2:33 PM, Skip wrote:


> So, I thought, why not move the pulley 90 degrees, push the dizzy
> drive shaft in, then turn the pulley back to TDC and Bob's your
> uncle. Not so. I couldn't get the dizzy drive shaft to drop back down
> into the drive shaft gears while the pulley was 90 degrees ATDC.
> Maybe I didn't wiggle it enough? Or maybe there's a reason it
> wouldn't drop?


90 degrees of the distributor rotor is 180 degrees of the crankshaft.
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