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gtomo2:
Ok put new engine in disco and fitted new dissy now it says in the book nunber 1 is left bank pully end but is this left as you look at the front of the engine or left as you stand at the back of the engine. I have a feeling i have put the leads on wrong :roll:  :evil:

drmike:
As you look at the engine from teh front.

The Haynes manual is very precise as I recall.

I got a manual for a 3500 Rover saloon which covered my V8 very well for £1.50 at a charity shop.

Mike

gtomo2:

--- Quote from: "drmike" ---As you look at the engine from teh front.

The Haynes manual is very precise as I recall.

I got a manual for a 3500 Rover saloon which covered my V8 very well for £1.50 at a charity shop.

Mike
--- End quote ---

Thanks will pop back and re do the leads. Rave cd don't say from which end :roll: .

gtomo2:
Doh stil dont work. Well that sit for today start again tomorrow :evil:

drmike:
Have you got the firing order right on the cap?

A V8 will run given even the slightest sniff of correct timing. I had mine out by a whole lead at one stage. It wasn't happy but it did start and run.

What I had to do was:

Make sure a spark was at the centre lead - if you can't get a spark there then you're stuffed
Then set up the number one lead in the correct position on the cap relative to the dizzy position - again the Haynes manual is good on this
Then I set all the other leads according to that
Then I tried to get the timing not too far off static

Loosen the dizzy clamp
After that it was fiddle until it started
Then fiddle until it sounded sweet
Then I'd get the timing gun on it

But TBH tuning byu ear was OK on my old V8 - yours is probably more sophisticated!

Mike

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