Reply to "distributor install"

Too Late!

I already tapped a piece of wire through the roll pin. If it falls out and eats up the motor, that one will be on me.

Otherwise, I've been waiting for supervision on a few of the more technical things like the distributor install, but I could only wait so long. So today I went for it and got it installed, got the plug wires all plugged in, got the wiring all plugged back in. It should be all ready to fire up when the time comes.

Plugs are out, because I want to develop oil pressure before putting any more loads on the engine since it's been dry cranked while we were troubleshooting the problem.

I've been told to not worry about that at all, but that's just me, I'd rather spend the extra couple minutes just for my own piece of mind.

This will also give us the chance to double/triple check that I've properly set everything at TDC, and didn't screw that part up. It'll be easy while we're cranking for oil pressure to check for the compressions stroke.

I'm very sure it's properly set at TDC, but I still want to double check.

Measure twice, cut once.