Subject: RE: Installing distributor
Author: Keith Ruff
Date: Mar 17, 2005, 12:26 PM
Post ID: 1718559447
Ted Ward wrote:
"Also is there an easy way to determine if a cylinder is on its
compression stroke without removing the valve cover?"
Ted,
I check by pulling the spark plug and sticking my thumb over the plug
hole on the cylinder. If your thumb gets sucked into the cylinder, your
on the intake stroke, if it gets pushed out, your on the compression
stroke.
Keith Ruff
70 Cafe Racer Ambo
Manahawkin, NJ
| Hey guys, Ian sent me this quite a while ago, I just got around to putting the distributor in (thanks Joe Jump for the good used clutch plates) and am not having much luck in getting the bike to sound like it wants to start. Is there anything amiss here? Also is there an easy way to determine if a cylinder is on its compression stroke without removing the valve cover? Thanks Ted ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Adkins" <ianad-@alltel.net> ... You can install the dist eaily enough. Guzziology has a good description of how to do it but you basically have to make sure the left hand cylinder is at TDC on the compression stroke and then insert the dist shaft so that the cam lobe is just at the point of opening the points. Remember that you have to be on the right cam lobe as there are two of them. I think the contact on rotor should point at 6 o'clock...downwards? Also...be sure that the dist adjusting bolt is in the middle of the adjustment range. ... |