Posted by ScottyHOMEy on October 20, 2008 at 15:59:03 from (70.105.249.63):
Sorry about the wise-acre response you got the other night about your mag question.
You know how to find the timing marks on your gears so I'll assume you have a manual of some sort and that the procedure there isn't working.
What have you done so far to the tractor or the mag? no telling whehter that mag drive gear is in registeror not.
Just as an initial reference point, you need to have your motor lined up to TDC on the compression stroke on #1 and the distributor rotor on the mag lined up to fire #1 as a rough starting point. If the mag will fit over the lug onthe drive gear (or is the lug on the mag???? Gawd, I'm foggy tonight) you can try timing it up by the book.
Two thoughts. If you're at TDC on exhaust rather than compression, you'll be 180* out and you can a) dismount the mag, bring the motor around to the next TDC and do it right, or b)just swap your plug wires around to make it work. Myself, I'd take pity on the next guy and go with (a).
The other thought is that the gear being in backwards suggests that it may be so far out of register that you can't pull a mag into time. It doesn't have the play that a battery-ignition distributor has. In that case, you'll need to do some wrenching to open up the timing case and get the gear back in proper register to have any hope of gettin' her runnin' right.
Let us know what you've done and where you are in relation to stuff being in the right place. We can gt you out if this and runnin'.
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