Distributor Shaft Alignment, Small sector to Left/driver side? or Right/pass. side? Options

[Gatornapper]

Haynes Manual, page 65, Fig. 3.6, referenced from page 64, Pp. 6, #7: "install it so that.........an angle of 12 deg. .......with the small sector facing towards the outside of the car."

On my 914, the small sector is on the left.

If I'm reading this correctly, this is ambiguous and does not clarify it "the outside of the car" is the Driver's side or Passenger side.......

Can someone clarify this please? Or am I missing something (not the first time...).....

TIA,

GN

[Gatornapper]

Ok, #1 is at TDC, and this is the position of the rotor - between cap towers - not under a tower. Because of the off-set on the groove in the dist shaft and the dist. base, this is the only way it will go in.

This is also with the points set by static timing immediately after light went on, slowly turning dizzy CCW......i.e., dizzy was inserted initially with point of rotor on mark on top wall of dizzy, and has been rotated CCW from that point. Splines of dizzy base are fully inserted in shaft.

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How can this be?

If I remember correctly, when engine was running well, the #1 cap tower was at about 11 o'clock from the rear facing the front of the car. About 80 deg. CCW from where it is now.........

What changed it's orientation?

GN

[Superhawk996]

This is also with the points set by static timing immediately after light went on, slowly turning dizzy CCW......i.e., dizzy was inserted initially with point of rotor on mark on top wall of dizzy, and has been rotated CCW from that point.

@Gatornapper

I'm a bit confused by your statement that you set static timing immediately after the light went ON.

Your test light should be fed by +12v. The ground circuit is completed by the points.

When the points are closed, the light is ON.

Static timing is set by rotating the distributor until the light goes OFF and the points have just begun to OPEN.

The ignigiton fires off spark when the points OPEN. Thus, the point at which the light turns OFF is what you're intested in when setting the static timing.

[Superhawk996]

This is also with the points set by static timing immediately after light went on, slowly turning dizzy CCW......i.e., dizzy was inserted initially with point of rotor on mark on top wall of dizzy, and has been rotated CCW from that point.

@Gatornapper

I'm a bit confused by your statement that you set static timing immediately after the light went ON.

Your test light should be fed by +12v. The ground circuit is completed by the points.

When the points are closed, the light is ON.

Static timing is set by rotating the distributor until the light goes OFF and the points have just begun to OPEN.

The ignigiton fires off spark when the points OPEN. Thus, the point at which the light turns OFF is what you're intested in when setting the static timing.

Note: As I thought about this more, you could configure the light to work either way depending on how you wired the light in.

The method above is what has always worked for me where I use the points to break the circuit and turn the light OFF. Actually, I don't even use a light. I just measure the resistance across the points with a DMM but the principle is the same. Regarless, the coil always fires off the spark when the point open.