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[Shaggy33]

Bit the bullet and bought a recon dizzy and new coil from hh. This may sound like a silly question but can I simply insert dizzy back into engine and rotate rotor arm round until it pushes fully home instead of starting from scratch, i.e. find top read centre and look for rotor position around 1 o'clock.
All I've done is remove old dizzy so don't see why this would be a problem?

[cal844]

As long as your current dizzy is electronic, what I did was to find tdc firing stroke(so its set to reduce issues later) then mark the dizzy/ block(so you know its located right and also makes changes easier)


Then remove the dizzy cap
Remove the clamp
Remove dizzy(rotor arm will move slightly as you remove/ refit as the gears mesh)

Refit new dizzy, noting where the old dizzy rotor arm stopped rotating so you can mesh gears

Then make sure your rotor arm fits(and poigs the correct position!)

Now you need to get the dizzy body lined up as close as poss to the marks made for reference, leave dizzy clamp bolt slightly loose so you can rotate the dizzy if it won't run(providing the dizzy is lined up close enough it will run)

For your first few drives keep the spaner for the dizzy clamp with you so you can make alterations to timing as you need

[Shaggy33]

Thank you cal, really appreciate the time taken to write that. Problem is I removed the did old dizzy a few weeks ago after turning engine over several items trying to start it....