'76 850 ADI: Timing off by 180 degrees!! (Solved - Just call me an idiot!)

[Smig]

This is going to sound really stupid, but I wanted to ask anyway (and hopefully when I walk back outside I will find that I was off and not the engine!)

I have been battling a fuel pump issue, went to hook everything back up and retime the engine - All of a sudden #1 is sparking exactly 180 degree off of TDC! I did find that the nut holding the wire on the #1 coil side from the switch box had fallen off but the wire iself was still holding to the stud by friction.

Could that be the problem? What else would cause a 180 degree switch in one week other than ME!!

Thanks
Smig

 

[erniex]

Re: '76 850 ADI: Timing off by 180 degrees!!

Re: '76 850 ADI: Timing off by 180 degrees!!

Are you sure you plug wires are run correctly? Did you disconnect the coils while working on your fuel pump?

 

[Smig]

Re: '76 850 ADI: Timing off by 180 degrees!!

Re: '76 850 ADI: Timing off by 180 degrees!!

Definitely my problem - I think in the IT business they call it an "ID 10 T" error. Around home, we just call it a brain fart...:redface:

...it wasn't the idle stop that I had the throttle lever against, it was the max spark stop! Duh!! Which normally wouldn't be a problem - but I had bottomed out the primary pick up screw to check some wire clearances and never put it back!!

Now, back to our regularly scheduled fuel pump battle...

Smig