V8 engine basic setup
Discussion
Anyone know of a good site or have the basic knowledge for what position everything should go on a new install
Ie
TDC
What angle the oil pump shaft should be
What direction the dist body should be facing (vacumn + amplifier next to each other - as per 400)
Where no one plug should be in dist cap
Order in clockwise from no 1 - 8,4,3,6,5,7,2
I have a couple of haynes manuals , Range Rover & Discovery, wedge, chim bibles but no one sems to show from a brand new perspective and hence getting a bit frustrated
Have read all this in a book somewhere but can't seem to find the info when I need it
Cheers
Ie
TDC
What angle the oil pump shaft should be
What direction the dist body should be facing (vacumn + amplifier next to each other - as per 400)
Where no one plug should be in dist cap
Order in clockwise from no 1 - 8,4,3,6,5,7,2
I have a couple of haynes manuals , Range Rover & Discovery, wedge, chim bibles but no one sems to show from a brand new perspective and hence getting a bit frustrated
Have read all this in a book somewhere but can't seem to find the info when I need it
Cheers
Vac cannister position is fairly irrelevant so long as it doesn't foul anything and the same goes for the oil pump drive shaft. All you need to do is ensure that at appx 8-10 degrees before tdc the rotor arm is underneath the number one plug lead. The rest of the leads will be located in a clockwise direction and in the firing order. Sometimes people aim the rotor arm towards number one cylinder when it's under the no 1 lead. To do this you drop it into the engine and it will rotate it'self towards number one cylinder. Obviously the oil pump shaft has to be in a suitable position to engage the dizzy.
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The Haynes manual for the Rover 3500 covers this in some detail. But its actually not as critical as you might think.
If you change the orientation of the distributor drive shaft, you change where the rotor arm is a #1 TDC. All this means is that you have to put the #1 lead in the corrsponding place on the dizzy cap (and all the other leads in the appropriate relative position).
You can orient the dizzy pretty much any way you want. It doesn't care which HT lead goes to which cylinder. Put another way, you can rotate the dizzy body by 1/8th of a turn, shuffle all the leads round one position and it will work just as well. By following the instructions to align the drive shaft, what you're really trying to do is end up with the plug leads in the same position everyone else uses, which is just a matter of convention really.
If you change the orientation of the distributor drive shaft, you change where the rotor arm is a #1 TDC. All this means is that you have to put the #1 lead in the corrsponding place on the dizzy cap (and all the other leads in the appropriate relative position).
You can orient the dizzy pretty much any way you want. It doesn't care which HT lead goes to which cylinder. Put another way, you can rotate the dizzy body by 1/8th of a turn, shuffle all the leads round one position and it will work just as well. By following the instructions to align the drive shaft, what you're really trying to do is end up with the plug leads in the same position everyone else uses, which is just a matter of convention really.
Cheers guys , I know what you are saying, but things seem very tight, and then very noisy
Have found my Range Rover cd that says start of with the oil shaft in the 10 to 4 position, insert dist 30 d anti clockwise from no 1 in cap, then it should all engage !!
Will try again tonight to get a smoother engine !
Have found my Range Rover cd that says start of with the oil shaft in the 10 to 4 position, insert dist 30 d anti clockwise from no 1 in cap, then it should all engage !!
Will try again tonight to get a smoother engine !
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