Good day everyone, Working on my 58 Ford 601 tractor for the last few days which wouldn't run. Ended up replacing a broken carb, rebuilding the distributor, and completed the tuneup by adding new points .025, condenser,plug wires, coil, cap and rotor. I have made sure that the rotor was facing the number (1)one cylinder and timing marks on the flywheel is at 4* as the manual stated. I installed the wires as the book recommend using the fashion of 1243 CCW. Engine would not run smoothly, sneezing out the carb. While it was running and semi idling, i started pulling the wires one at a time to see which cylinder was misfiring. Removal of #1 closes to the radiator made a vary little difference, same as the removal of #4 cylinder which was pretty cool the old girl still ran but with out a miss of sneezing on two cylinders. I messed with the wire placement and finally got it to smooth out with out sneezing. The odd thing is i know on the distributor the wire placement as stated is 1243 CCW, but the rotation i ended up with is opposite going clockwise. What am i missing? What did i do wrong?
-Ron
-Ron