What are Mercury Sable cylinder numbers and firing order?

Answer 1

Ford settled on a single firing order for v6 engines covering many many years of vehicles: 1-4-2-5-3-6

Cylinder numbers:

1 2 3

4 5 6

(Front of Vehicle)

Coil numbering:

1 2 3

4 5 6

(Front of Vehicle)

With the connector positioned in the lower right hand corner, the upper row from left to right is: 4-6-5. The lower row is 3-2-1.

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Distributor CapThe distributor cap should have a number one stamped on it indicating which one is number one. if not you should go and get a ford factory cap and it will tell you.

Alternatively, the distributor has 2 screws to hold it down - starting from the back screw to the right going clockwise is 3-5-2-4-1-6

Hints & Tips -

• To aid in installation and avoid confusion, remove and tag the spark plug wires one at a time.
• Use di-electric grease on the plug wires to help keep them from sticking for future ease of changing
• A bit of anti-seize compound on the plugs - again to avoid future problems

the distributer cap has a middle terminal, that middle terminal goes to the terminal on the coil via spark plug wire.

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