Unbolt usually 2 or 3 5/16 bolts put cap aside the rotor button some are just push on and some screw on. But its easy to do
Remove the cap, line up the rotor to a point on the engine and mark it with a white chalk. un plug the wire harness, remove the hold down bolt, remove the rotor, then pull the dist. out. New dist. put rotor on and slide the dist. in and spin the rotor to the same place as marked before.
remove one half inch bolt on the hold down of the dist. but make sure you mark the location of the rotor in relation to the dist. cap or t will be hard to reinstall dist
In the distributor,you need to remove the dist cap & then remove the rotor and it will be mounted to the distributor housing
ignition switch?? ignition module is on distributor, and is under the dist cap, remove the dist cap and rotor bug, it pulls off, then if it was not running you can remove the little black box, its a module, have it checked at autozone for free, take coil off top of dist cap, is as easy as removing the screws, and replacing unit. reassemble it.
Take the dist cap off. mark the base of the dist and engine block so you can put it back where it was. Mark where the rotor is pointing. Pull the dist out and mark where the rotor is pointing now to facilitate replacing the dist. Remove the gear off of the dist shft. notice there is an indentation on the gear corresponding to the rotor. pull the shaft out of the dist and then remove and replace the pick up coil and make sure the relucter ring doesn't hit when tightening the screws. Reverse removal.Make SURE th e rotor is pointing the same direction EXACYLY as it was when you removed it.
take out the # 1 spark plug turn the motor to top dead center remove the dist. cap and where ever the rotor is pointing is # 1
No, all motors that year have distributorless ignition.
Defective new cap/rotor?
if you remove the dist cap there is a small peice with 4 wires on it its held on with two screws on the outside of the dist if you remove the dist cap there is a small peice with 4 wires on it its held on with two screws on the outside of the dist
remove coil wire from dist. have assistant crank engine over hold coil wire with insulated pliers about .05 inch from engine look for spark while assistant cranks engine. if you have spark . remove a spark plug wire do same spark test if you still have spark rotor is good, if not rotor is bad or another problem inside dist. also you look for corroded or burned spots on rotor or dist. cap
Bad coil? Bad dist. cap? Bad rotor?
spark plugs dist cap rotor wires,oil change carb adjustment