Hi, Folks - I have an 86 944.

I pulled the camshaft assembly and cylinder head off the engine and took these parts to a machine shop to be inspected (they were o.k.). The shop disassembled and reassembled the camshaft assembly before returning it to me.

My question presumes the engine is positioned with cylinder 1 at TDC on the compression stroke.

When the notch on the camshaft drive-gear is aligned with the mark on the housing, where should the rotor be pointing (spark for Cylinder 1? 2? 3? 4?)? It doesn't look right the way it is now (the rotor points a few degrees counter-clockwise from aligning with the notch on the camshaft gear -- is that its correct position?

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

it should be pointing at about 4 or 5 o clock. With the engine at TDC for #1.

It should be the only place it could possibly be. Unless your missing the bolts (Like my car was when i got it)

-Brett

 

Thanks, Brett -- I thought that's where it should be. Which bolts were missing from your car?

 

Yep. The bottom right.

 

I was missing the one that holds the piece the rotor goes onto, onto the cam gear.
Not the one in the rotor, the next one back.
PITA to find a new one.

-Brett

 

UpdateL It turns out that the bolt that holds the distributor driver to the end of the camshaft was loose, allowing the rotor to wander. I don't know if this was an oversight on the machine shop's part or whether it just worked itself loose. I moved the rotor back into position and . . . it now runs like a champ!