modulistic
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- Nov 26, 2002
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Are these 2 pics supposed to be showing us they are different, or the same???I think I may have found something. I realized that this particular problem didnt start until after I installed the new distributor. So I pulled up a picture online.
I have made a yellow line on the two pictures showing where the #1 plug wire is pointing on the engine. Mine and the other picture are drastically different! Please ignore the numbers written on my cap. I know they are wrong. The wires to go the right place!
IS MY DISTRIBUTOR STABBED WRONG?
Photo of an engine I found on google.
Photo of my engine.
Depends on how far out of range your plug is.Too hot of a spark plug will cause pre-ignition but not knock/detonation. Thesse get confused all of the time. Knock is bad and pre-ignition is much much worse. Pre-ignition sounds like mega-knock and an engine will only tolerate a couple of them before it blasts a hole in the piston. Long term knocking however can result in pre-ignition by building a hot spot in the chamber, but that's usually more toward the periphery of the cylinder away from the plug.
No!
If you clock the wires, number 1 can be ANYWHERE on the distributor you like, and does not have to be one set spot!