help timing issue....

[MI95Cobra]

ok...just got my car motor back together....i turn it over and it turns over but then backfires.....i pulled the #1 spark plug twice and turned the crank until the #1 cylinder is at top.....i turned the key just enough to get it to turn over then i checked under the dist cap and the rotor was in different positions so i moved the wires around to make the #1 wire where the rotor was and put them in firing order after that....please help....

 

[blkcobra50]

when #1 is at TDC on compression stroke where is the rotor pointing?

 

[bill302]

remove distributor.remove #1 sparkplug..turn motor by hand at the crank using a ratchet 3 in. extension and socket, while you turn the motor place your finger over the #1 sparkplug hole and form a seal, stop rotating motor when you feel air pressure blow your finger off the sparkplug hole bring the all the way to the top at this point you can install a screwdriver into the sparkplug hole and use it to feel when the piston reaches the top while slowly rotating motor then if your balancer is correct you should be at 0* look at the pointer....this is top dead center...at this point install the distributor with the rotor button pointing toward the #1 distributor wire numbered the picture below...
install wires as in the picture below and place the wire plug boots on the cylinder numbered in the picture.....then fire it up you may need to slightly rotate distributor while cranking to fire...then set the timing with a timing light don't forget to remove the spout connector put it in your pocket so you don't loose it then replace it after timing is set...

 

[final5-0]

You were just 180 out

All you had to do was point the rotor in the exact opposite direction

Now ... just do like the rest of the guys suggest

Grady

 

[MI95Cobra]

thanks everybody...... problem is going to be solved after i wrote it...i talked my father over to help me out....just took a 6pk and cigs....

 

[MI95Cobra]

damn...spoke to soon...apparently i'm so far out of time i'm going to take the timing cover off and start all over....also i torqued the fulcrum bolts(rocker arms) to tight...i didn't use my book on those and read that i have a torque settings on them...i didn't use the book because on my 92 gt when i replaced the cam i also replaced the rocker arms with roller rockers and anyways i rotated them until they were at the lowest point and tightened them and rotate them a few times and do it again just incase they are loose(according to the book i had)...my book for my 95 says something different...take it to the lowest point and tighten to the specific torque....