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

[injunmort]

in your picture, you are not timed on #1. that is #4. #1 from the back of the car is trans left side. 1 next to it is 2(by chimney left side, 3 trans right side , 4 is chimney , right side. by that pic you are 180 out. can be done with better grasp of system. go by book. put #1 on tdc compression (both rockers on #1 loose) check your fan mark, should be in aperture. clock your dist so that the rotor is pointed at the #1 spark plug. you may need to take out drive pinion and turn it 180 degrees. now set points by rotating dist. until points just break. that is it. next is setting with light while running.

[Gatornapper]

Mort -

In my rotor pic, that is exactly where #1 fires at TDC (confirmed on both flywheel and impeller).

What blows my mind is that if I remember correctly, from when I first started the engine, the 'chimney' you describe WAS WHERE #1 PLUG WIRE USED TO BE. But I am not sure as I never got into dizzy as engine was running so well.

But when engine quit running (for no reason I can find), I pulled the dizzy, put in new points, gapped them at .016", put engine where #1 was at TDC compression stroke - and find that #1 fires with the rotor in the position in my pic.

So - if my memory is correct on the initial chimney for #1 being as you described - how did rotor position get changed from position you describe to the position in my pic? The dizzy shaft groove will - as we all know - only allow the dizzy to be installed in one position. I still have never touched the dizzy driveshaft.

I know this defies logic.

GN

in your picture, you are not timed on #1. that is #4. #1 from the back of the car is trans left side. 1 next to it is 2(by chimney left side, 3 trans right side , 4 is chimney , right side. by that pic you are 180 out. can be done with better grasp of system. go by book. put #1 on tdc compression (both rockers on #1 loose) check your fan mark, should be in aperture. clock your dist so that the rotor is pointed at the #1 spark plug. you may need to take out drive pinion and turn it 180 degrees. now set points by rotating dist. until points just break. that is it. next is setting with light while running.