Distributor vacuum advance hitting intake.......

Cuda Al said

The only reason there is a standard in the placement of the gear and the distributor is standardization and ease of troubleshooting, along with having standard length wires.

The engine doesn't care where number one is as long as the rotor is pointed at it at top dead center, likewise with the advance.


Alan

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Lol it has nothing to do with wires, Alan.
Why how do you think they came up with the std length in the 1st place.
This engines intermediate shaft is probably a tooth off from where it should be.
Can you move the intermediate clockwise, counterclockwise and any where in between as long as its no.1 and so on , yeah, not arguing that.. but you'd have to have some odd setup to need to do that.
To each his own, as long as it runs good... wear a belt with your suspenders for all I care..:D