Does this look like proper distributor rotor orientation???
10-07-2007, 01:05 PM
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Does this look like proper distributor rotor orientation???
I am changing my caps & rotors to troubleshoot a 'miss' at 5700rpm & above. Does this look like proper rotor orientation??? 
(I can't find any pics of a known good-to-go system) I would 'guess' that they should be sort of parallel, but maybe not??? Any insights, comments before I button it up???
BTW: the rotors and cap are new.
(I can't find any pics of a known good-to-go system) I would 'guess' that they should be sort of parallel, but maybe not??? Any insights, comments before I button it up???BTW: the rotors and cap are new.
10-07-2007, 02:15 PM
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Marlon: I didn't pay much attention to the orientation of the rotors. They were both pointing in same general direction, but didn't seem exactly "parallel" . I did have to press down quite hard to make sure they snapped down all the way. Car ran the same before and after: nearly perfect, if not perfectly smooth. My car has 78K and there's no record of this ever being done before.
10-07-2007, 03:19 PM
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Everybody - the rotors are installed correctly on the distributor shafts. My question is whether of not the rotors should be roughly parallel since the plug wire (cylinder ) numbers molded into the two distributor caps are the same with the same orientation around each cap. (There's no 1 - 6 cap & a separate 7 - 12 cap, they both have 1 - 6 molded in tiny numbers on the cap next to each socket) Just curious that one rotor is pointing at a particular cylinder, the other rotor is pointing at another cylinder.
10-07-2007, 03:25 PM
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I'm about to pull some parts and re-check mine. My car runs fine, no misses but I had major power loss this summer in 100F heat going up a steep mountain in CA (around 3000 ft elevation). So I'm going to check mine to make sure it's right. I'll shoot some pics for reference once I get in there.
10-07-2007, 03:36 PM
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I'm about to pull some parts and re-check mine. My car runs fine, no misses but I had major power loss this summer in 100F heat going up a steep mountain in CA (around 3000 ft elevation). So I'm going to check mine to make sure it's right. I'll shoot some pics for reference once I get in there.
Or not...
10-07-2007, 04:05 PM
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The rotors are offset by 1/6 revolution, they are not "parallel". You can turn your engine (bump w/starter, pushing 6th gear, use a wrench on the fan pulley) and line up the top distributor to the #1 mark, and you should see the lower distributor line up to it's number one mark as well.
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10-07-2007, 08:01 PM
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DooooH@! I just noticed that the caps actually mount a little bit offset in term of 'rotation' when you look at them directly from above. In other words one is twisted a little. Soooooo - when the caps are off, it would be easy to misinterpret the rotor positions relative to each other. Sorry for the doofus emergency. We can all rest easy now
