HCI install. Okay I've found 4 threads via search (1 week to 3 months old) with my EXACT problem and I think we are all 180 degrees out...
Symptoms:
Some of the spark plugs are flooded with gas, gas in the exhaust. I have gas in the oil pan. Backfiring thru the intake.
I marked where my rotor button was facing. It was at 3:00 looking from the front of the motor to the rear of the car. I should have bumped the motor to where it was at TDC but did not. I restabbed the distributor exactly 180 deg at the 9:00 position.
I tried to cranked the motor. Didn't work. To my surprise the harmonic balancer read 0. The "ATC" mark is counter clockwise to the zero and has 5 marks representing 10 degrees. After the zero mark is 15 degree marks representing 30 degrees and after the 30 is a "BTC" mark.
The zero mark was spot on the "timing" straight edge of the timing marker on the block.
In EVERY 5.0 I've owned the #1 wire on the cap is at 1:30 position. The #1 is marked underneath the cap as well. The rotor button is always pointing toward it. This is the way I took it off this car and the other 2 I've owned.
After I had spun the dizzy around 180 degrees NOT at TDC and tried to crank the car, I lucked up on TDC. And you know what? The rotor was pointing at 1:30. The lower cap was marked at the intake bolt and it was lined up too.
QUESTION!
In every diagram I read, the #1 is at the 12:00 position. My wires were no where near this unless I spun the dizzy way out of whack. Why do these diagrams not add up? Even with the advance in timing I've NEVER seen the #1 wire at 12:00 or the rotor button there.
It is wanting to crank now but the plugs are probably fouled and the battery is about dead. Do I need to put the motor back at TDC, change the way I've always seen it and put the #1 plug wire at 12:00- against where it says #1 on the underside of the cap, and point the rotor at 12:00 all in the name of cranking this car????
If someone answers this right I will by you a huge cookie!!!
Symptoms:
Some of the spark plugs are flooded with gas, gas in the exhaust. I have gas in the oil pan. Backfiring thru the intake.
I marked where my rotor button was facing. It was at 3:00 looking from the front of the motor to the rear of the car. I should have bumped the motor to where it was at TDC but did not. I restabbed the distributor exactly 180 deg at the 9:00 position.
I tried to cranked the motor. Didn't work. To my surprise the harmonic balancer read 0. The "ATC" mark is counter clockwise to the zero and has 5 marks representing 10 degrees. After the zero mark is 15 degree marks representing 30 degrees and after the 30 is a "BTC" mark.
The zero mark was spot on the "timing" straight edge of the timing marker on the block.
In EVERY 5.0 I've owned the #1 wire on the cap is at 1:30 position. The #1 is marked underneath the cap as well. The rotor button is always pointing toward it. This is the way I took it off this car and the other 2 I've owned.
After I had spun the dizzy around 180 degrees NOT at TDC and tried to crank the car, I lucked up on TDC. And you know what? The rotor was pointing at 1:30. The lower cap was marked at the intake bolt and it was lined up too.
QUESTION!
In every diagram I read, the #1 is at the 12:00 position. My wires were no where near this unless I spun the dizzy way out of whack. Why do these diagrams not add up? Even with the advance in timing I've NEVER seen the #1 wire at 12:00 or the rotor button there.
It is wanting to crank now but the plugs are probably fouled and the battery is about dead. Do I need to put the motor back at TDC, change the way I've always seen it and put the #1 plug wire at 12:00- against where it says #1 on the underside of the cap, and point the rotor at 12:00 all in the name of cranking this car????
If someone answers this right I will by you a huge cookie!!!