![]() So sometimes you have to rotate the distributor just a little either way, or both, with the engine spinning over. You can figure where the rotor is in relationship to the #1 terminal on the cap to fire the engine, but that may be close, bit not close enough because you want the spark to fire Before Top Dead Center (BTDC) - or a little before the piston reaches the top. Sometimes you have to move the distributor around a little to find the best place it wants to be to fre the engine. ![]() NOTE: To stop the engine, you have to yank that hot wire or ti will not stop because the coil is getting 12V from the battery - the key is what disconnects the 12V to the coil, but you have jumped the key, so pull the wire to stop the engine. The engine should fire up if all the above checks out. Once the engine cranks, the hot wire is the needed 12V to the coil to fire the plugs. If the engine cranks off the key, the hot wire will act as a jumper if you have a bad ignition problem - key switch, wires cut, wires missing, wires wrongly hooked up. If electronic, not much to go bad other than the module - generally, and they don't go bad often.īack to the hot wire. 019" or a dwell of 30 degrees when using a dwell meter. You did not say - points or electronic? If points, they have to have an air gap. This will provide 12V to the coil which in turn will provide the voltage to the distributor. If that is good, go with a hot wire from the battery to the Pos+ side of the coil. The engine has a hard time, if it fires at all, when it is flooded. You are getting gas, but maybe too much or you flooded the engine. If good, then pull you plugs to make sure that the plugs are not wet. Pontiac engines fire counter clockwise, so make sure you inserted your spark plug wires in the correct firing order counter clockwise - or left rotation. Click to expand.Verify that No.1spark plug wire is firing off of No.
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