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COOTER · 08-26-2016, 02:57 PM

Car was running just fine but suddenly died while driving. After a little troubleshooting, I found that the screw that holds the points to the upper plate came out and was floating around in the distributor body....so I had to pull the upper plate to get to it.
I'm assuming at this point the timing needs to be reset? I do not have a crank to spin the motor. Is there another way to do it by hand?

08-26-2016, 02:57 PM	#1
COOTER Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Location: Ontario, CA Posts: 187	Timing w/o handcrank Car was running just fine but suddenly died while driving. After a little troubleshooting, I found that the screw that holds the points to the upper plate came out and was floating around in the distributor body....so I had to pull the upper plate to get to it. I'm assuming at this point the timing needs to be reset? I do not have a crank to spin the motor. Is there another way to do it by hand?