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[Shawn]

story: Ford pickup suddenly stopped running, though several months before I had
replaced a leaking timing chain cover, new water pump etc. - I noticed the
chain was very loose, but I was ignorant and did not replace. Anyway, after
getting the pickup home I could not get any fire to the plugs, and thought
about the chain. Did the chain jump?
Slowly but surely I replaced just about everything - new distributor, plugs,
wires, cap, rotor, coil, module, and finally the chain and sprokets. When put
back together it starts but dies when put in gear and barely idles, but
occasionally will run perfectly.
When the harmonic bearing mark shows TDC for number 1 piston, the rotor points
to number 4 piston on the dist. cap. When I replaced the timing chain and
gears I aligned them with marks pointing to each other, though the rotor again
was not pointing to number 1 on the cap. Help!!!

thanks for any input
Shawn

[adrian]

Hey Shawn remove the number one spark plug to put the piston on top then with a screw driver make sure its on top .Open the dist and the rotor should be pointing to #1 put the spark plug back and connect the wire.If not remove the dist and point the rotor to the #1 then reinsert it again.tighten the bolt and to start it.......
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