Calling Rob Love or others with info... Jeep F-head engine

[Bob Carriere]

Rob

You picture with the wire location is DIFFERENT..........

The answer is probably right there.......

I worked with the dizzy cap with the plug wires still on and never questioned their location as that is how, presumably they wereleft by the owner when he took them off the old engine.

In a nut shell.....my number one wire is where you have the number 4 and my number 4 is where the number one appears on your picture.......

We have been trying to start it 180 degrees out of sync........

Even the photograph of the dizzy he took as he was taking it apart shows the 180 out of sequence....... we have been setting the BTDC on the exhaust stroke.......

Will pull out the dizzy....turnt he engine to BTDC and re insert the dizzy whcih should index in the same position you showed in your picture.

Then find a hammer and take turns hitting ourselves over the head to the tune of the roaring engine.

How you a large beer and St Hubert chicken........

[Michael R.]

(paraphrased)
“Then find a hammer and take turns hitting ourselves over the head to the tune of the roaring engine.
Owe you a large beer and St Hubert chicken...”

avec ...
(Est-ce que ça va mieux, monsieur Carrier? ��)

[Bob Carriere]

.....those are not St Hubert Fries!!!!!

10 am tomorrow morning I will be at the guys house to try out the solution...

Bob C

[rob love]

Bob: You said the oil pump slot was offset, so you do not need to pull the distributor...just the 4 wires off the cover and re-install them to the order I have shown. Then set your timing mark to 5BTDC, and turn the distributor clockwise until the points are just opening.



Pulling the distributor will accomplish nothing, since the oil pump should be indexed from the re-builder. This is assuming nobody has pulled the oil pump.



I think just about anyone on this forum knows about the frustration when something doesn't work the way you think it should, and the obvious answer just doesn't present itself.Usually walking away for a while is the answer....I know I have awoken at 2 in the morning with the solution to some of these type of events.



Last note: Ixnay on the St Hubert-eh....the wife has still not forgiven me for having it (and even worse not appreciating it) back when we recovered those 25 pounders several years ago. I told her about your offer of St Huberts tonight, and she called me an ***-****.

[Bob Carriere]

So darn silly and simple solution.

I assumed that when he removed the dizzy from the old engine the numbered the tags he put on each wire were incorrectly....... says he does not recall.

Removed and re installed the wires in the right order....a bit of choke and "voila" runs like a charm

So a big St Hubert Thank you to Rob....... the picture was worth 1001 words. If I could mail out a full St Hubert dinner to your wife I would.

Thanks to everyone else who fired back and made me stop and think ......

I have one very happy neighbour.

Bob C


PS.... and for the record I HATE poutine....... and their fries are long and thin and crispy and the BBQA sauce is divine......... and I am on a 12 hour fast....YUCK!!!!!

PS....... and BIG thank you to Brian A. for supplying the rebuilt jeep engine.

[rob love]

Glad to hear it worked for you.



I should have you sent me a St Hubert's gift card so I could give it to my wife for Xmas, but it would just end up in her taking a trip to Quebec, and me having to fend for my self on the meals. It's a 60km roundtrip to the nearest A&W. Best to let sleeping dogs lay.