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From the top of the distributor, what is the firing order? Ie which pin goes to which cylinder?
Many thanks!
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Thanks bandit but I was referring to the order in which to attach the leads to the cap. I have now found it out and it is 3-1-2-4 counting from the top.
But why did I need to know this?
It all started when I decided to replace the ignition wires. I got the leads from Pete and the cap and rotor from a place that starts with a Po and ends with rsche. The wires where numbered and so was the cap so I thought "great someone smarter than me has done the thinking for me" and simply yanked the old stuff out - smart move!
With everything back together the car doesn't start. CRAP! So I put the old wires back and still it won't run.
Since the only thing I did without thinking was to attach the wires to the pins in accordance with the labeling I thought that "hmm, this might be wrong". So I do the search here, and I google and I try Clark and so on. All I end up is with 1342 and that doesn't help me much. I did find the pin sequence for the 8 valve engines but not for the 16.
So I start PET up and look at the dist cap and wires. And sure enough, there are dotted lines connecting each pin in the cap to the corresponding cylinder. So I move the wires accordingly and voila, she runs like a charm again.
The lesson to be learned here is that you always need to check everything. And just because you buy an OEM part doesn't automatically mean that it is right.
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My original cap had a nice sticker on it that showed the order, the replacement doesn't have that.
Try doing that on a 928 where you have eight wires. I pulled the cap and wires off together as a unit on my friends car figuring I would use that as the pattern for the new wires and cap. Put it all together and it was down on power, found the #2 wasn't firing and #4 wasn't as strong as others. Turns out the last wing nut mechanic decided to put the long #4 wire on #2 and stretch the #2 to #4. So when I applied sensible logic to the old setup using it as a model it didn't exactly work out.
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My cap has numbers printed on it. But in the wrong position...
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The best way is off course to pull and replace one wire at a time and this is how I normally do it.
1995 Riviera blue 968CS with LSD, custom LEDA coilovers with t-bar delete, S4 brakes, RS Barn braided lines, Tarett sways, Racers Edge bushings everywhere, Rack Tack, Design 1 braces and short shift kit, air box mod, RS Barn stage 1 chip, RS Barn cat back, RUF BTR2 wheels with Toyo R888, Deutsch Nine TRS version 2 rear wing (carbon fiber), AIR repop splitter (carbon fiber), brake cooling intakes (carbon fiber), Sparco seats and belts, OMP steering wheel and a lot of other little things that I can't recall at the moment...
