Reluctor and Phasing....

BigBlockMopar said
I was dealing with this just the other day as well.
Lining up the pickup coil with a reluctor-line made the rotor end up somewhere right between two cable terminals on the cap.
Not sure what I want to do here yet.
I could file another alignment gap in the distributor cap so it all lines up better, but that would be 'forgottten' to do again is the cap ever got replaced ofcourse.
Changing/altering the reluctor should be preferred me thinks.
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If I remember correctly the trigger event is just slightly after the two are lined up. (trailing edge on the pickup coil)
Could this explain it?
Also if the distributor pickup wires are swapped it will throw the phasing way off.
Ran across that just a little bit ago with a member having issue's with timing jumping all over the place and his total timing going too high.