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So I went to change my ignition components, and I was just going to do the plugs and wires, but when I removed one of the plugs from the distributor the shaft broke. SO, I broke out my new one.
I will illustrate this in pics below but I am wondering why the cylinder number order is different on my new dist (and you can see that the part number matches so it is indeed the correct part.)
I had called a friend of mine who has a 928 to ask him about it and he said he'd done it before, don't pay attention to the new numbers, just put everything back the way it was. So I matched up all the wires with where they would have gone on according to the old distributor and I am not getting a start.
the numbers on the cap are indeed not important if you put your wires as it was.... but are the 2 mounting screws on the same place ? If not, you "rotated" the cap a bit ...
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Same distributor different firing order?
