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a_s_h

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I am a bit stumped now with this so any help is most appreciated.
I have a 1600 van running twin kadrons and a 009 dizzy, ie no vacuum pipes to the kadrons. Recently took it to rolling road for a tune up and the guy said it was great but would benefit from a new dizzy as there was play in the bearings/ Shaft. So i got myself a genuine bosch 009 recon'd dizzy to swap over. This is the first time i have attempted this so read up as much as i could and started to have a go. move the engine over by hand so the rotor was at the timing mark on the dizzy case, checked the pulley was at tdc, then took the rocker cover off so check both valves on number one were closed ie number 1 cylinder at TDC not number3. Removed the old dizzy from the case and when i go to slot the new one in with the rotor at the case timing mark it won't slot right in as the offset pins on the bottom of the dizzy shaft are 180 degrees out, ie the wrong side of where they should be. Am i right so far or have i messed up somewhere along the line????
any help greatfully received.......
 
Sounds right to me I had similar problem no two 009 seem to be the same don't mess too much I just moved the cap round and changed ht leads order to suit best bet get it running and take it back to the rolling road it will need resetting as like I say all 009 seem to be all different even there advance curves deviate loads

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That is how my 009 sits too. Never really understood why, but she runs nice so I leave well alone.

It does look weird to see the HT cables configured awkwardly on the dizzy cap though.
 
i think i may have been a bit thick here.
Do i insert the dizzy into the case and turn the dizzy shaft till it slots into the groove then rotate the dizzy body so the its timing notch lines up with the rotor arm mark? ie is the orientation of the dizzy not necessarily the same? the old one was positioned so the timing mark on the dizzy body was right in front of your eyes as i looked at the engine, should this always be the case or can it be anywhere???
 
I changed my carb, manifold and alternator recently and had to take my dizzy out then had trouble starting her after. What you said sounded right but when I put the rota arm towards the notch it still didn't start so I put the rota arm towards the number 1 lead and it worked fine. Remember to make sure the leads are in order to 1,4,3,2!
When my dizzy went in the r/h front lead innthe dizzy was number 1 so that lead went to the front r/h side of the engine, then the back r/h lead in the dizzy number 4 lead went to the back L/h siide of the engine, and so on.....hope that makes sense??

Steve
 
a_s_h said:
i think i may have been a bit thick here.
Do i insert the dizzy into the case and turn the dizzy shaft till it slots into the groove then rotate the dizzy body so the its timing notch lines up with the rotor arm mark? ie is the orientation of the dizzy not necessarily the same? the old one was positioned so the timing mark on the dizzy body was right in front of your eyes as i looked at the engine, should this always be the case or can it be anywhere???

Yes - turn engine until it's at firing stroke TDC on No 1 cylinder (both valves will be slack at firing stroke TDC) then locate dizzy and turn until rotor arm points to notch. Now make sure that No 1 plug lead comes from that point - you may have to swap leads around. Then make sure that leads are 1-4-3-2 clockwise as you look down on dizzy.
 

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