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Ok, Mike again. Brooklyn NY, 72 Squareback, manual transmission, dual weber
carbs, 1600ccs
And I dont know what kind of distributor I have. Well let me clarify that.
I have a vaccuum advance distributor. Bosch.
That's all I know so far. I had a guy rebuild my engine a year ago and he
installed the distributor what seems backward.
Basically, I've been told by Muir thatwire for cylinder #1 is supposed to
be aligned with the notch in the distrib. body. Well, in my case it's not.
Wire # 3 is.
This doesn't seem like too big a problem because when I did my valve adj.,
everything was ok when I just accepted that #1 is where its wire goes.
The config looks like this, looking from the back:
vac. unit
condenser X X <-----notch
Generator 4 3
X X
1 2
I hope the diag. makes sense. The thing is that the condenser is to the
left of the vacuum plate, which means this is the only way the distributor
can fit properly in the engine compartment. I just dont get why #3 is where
the notch is. Do I have the wrong distributor in my car? Do I need vacuum
advance? Bentley looks like it says that vaccuum advance was an add-on to
reduce emissions in the FI 72 engines, and in 73 it was discontinued. I
have dual carbs. So is vac. advance necessary?
What do I do? The car has been running fine. I just drove it from NYC to
Amherst, Mass. and then some last weekend
and it worked great, although it had no power on the hills. And it pinged.
So I figured maybe the timing was bad and when I popped open the
distributor everything I saw was in direct contradiction with Muir. Please
help....
MIKE
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