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Aug 31, 2009 | 10:34 PM

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Steve83

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Originally Posted by StrangeRanger

...the ignition timing which is distributor to crank.

Distributor to CAMshaft.

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Originally Posted by vaderjedi

What did come out was the oil pump and I know I rotated the shaft to get the pump back in. Since the distributer runs off the oil pump shaft I assume that this is what threw the timing off.

No, the oil pump is driven by the dist. The dist is geared directly to the cam, so what you did couldn't affect ignition timing. Either the plug wires were wrong & you corrected them, or the cap was on wrong, or the dist turned in the block at some point.

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