farmall 200 distribuator cap

dewy · May 1, 2014

noticed old cap has a no.1 on top right of cap ,,, if looking at 4
positions,it looks like the one is closer to top right ..but when i
follow wire it goes to no, three cylinder...tractor seems to run
fine...firing order is 1342.. just.curious....dewy

Harold Hubbard · May 1, 2014

Somebody put the distributor in 180 degrees out of time, then moved the wires to fix the problem.

mkirsch · May 1, 2014

Yup, there isn't some Greek god of distributor caps floating up in the clouds, waiting to rain lightning down on he who does not plug the #1 spark plug into the post labeled #1.

The distributor can be rotated to any position, and the gears will mesh 1000's of different ways.

In this case I agree, it does sound like the previous owner put the distributor in 180 degrees out of time, and rather than fix it, he just moved the wires one position around the cap.

He probably had no idea what he did wrong, and changing the wires made it work so he just went with it.

dewy · May 1, 2014

thanks yall i thought some thing was fishy. dewy

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