Last week I managed to get the Champ to finally start and run. After a lot of fiddling around, I managed to get a rig set up using an outboard engine fuel tank, attaching its hose directly to the fuel pump. Worked like a dream.
When it came time to start the engine, we checked the leads, the spark plugs and the gap in the contact breaker. All good. I essentially re-assembled the distributor the same way I took it off the vehicle when I bought it. Below is a photo of the distributor after I bought the car
Looking at photos of the other distributors, the cables are not the same. However, when I started up the vehicle last week, she was running perfectly well in this same configuration.
On the EMER manual it says that firing order is 1 3 4 2. If I use the TDC marks on the flywheel, the rotor points down at the circled no. 2 on the distributor cap, not no.1. Unfortunately, I had my carburettor serviced, and they made a dog's breakfast of it. I installed it on the Champ this week, and after that, it won't start again. Hence why I started troubleshooting and ended up moving the distributor around, which I should never have done!
Nonetheless, I have bought 2 sets of NOS spark plug cables, and the wires are no way long enough to put them in the spaces as shown in the above picture.
How do I get the rotor to line up to no. 1 (which is the circled number at about 11 o'clock on the cap)? At TDC, the rotor points down at the circled no. 2 (which is at 8 o'clock on the distributor cap). Could the flywheel be so out, or is the rotor assembly wrong, or.....
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simondema
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Last week I managed to get the Champ to finally start and run. After a lot of fiddling around, I managed to get a rig set up using an outboard engine fuel tank, attaching its hose directly to the fuel pump. Worked like a dream.
When it came time to start the engine, we checked the leads, the spark plugs and the gap in the contact breaker. All good. I essentially re-assembled the distributor the same way I took it off the vehicle when I bought it. Below is a photo of the distributor after I bought the car
Looking at photos of the other distributors, the cables are not the same. However, when I started up the vehicle last week, she was running perfectly well in this same configuration.
On the EMER manual it says that firing order is 1 3 4 2. If I use the TDC marks on the flywheel, the rotor points down at the circled no. 2 on the distributor cap, not no.1. Unfortunately, I had my carburettor serviced, and they made a dog's breakfast of it. I installed it on the Champ this week, and after that, it won't start again. Hence why I started troubleshooting and ended up moving the distributor around, which I should never have done!
Nonetheless, I have bought 2 sets of NOS spark plug cables, and the wires are no way long enough to put them in the spaces as shown in the above picture.
How do I get the rotor to line up to no. 1 (which is the circled number at about 11 o'clock on the cap)? At TDC, the rotor points down at the circled no. 2 (which is at 8 o'clock on the distributor cap). Could the flywheel be so out, or is the rotor assembly wrong, or.....
Please, help!
Simon
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