[DeTomaso] distributor cylinder order

[Christopher Kimball]

No, it's a Cleveland.  The guy who sold me my new spark plug wires was the one who told me the order.  I have the numbers written on the distributor cap, I did that as I removed the old wires so I would be sure to hook the new wires up correctly.

The numbers I wrote on the cap are nowhere near the order the guy told me.

From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 01:45:41 -0500
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] distributor cylinder order
To: chrisvkimball at msn.com; detomaso at realbig.com



In a message dated 12/7/10 22 41 19, MikeLDrew at aol.com writes:





I was told today it should

> be 1,8,7,3,6,2,4,5.





P.S.   No Ford ever made uses this firing order.   Who on earth was feeding you this stuff???



P.P.S.   I just realized why this is so screwed up.   You're talking about hooking up the wires BACKWARDS from the way the distributor rotor rotates!   Could you possibly be making this any harder on yourself??? :>)



I assume you have a Windsor.   The firing order is 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8 and the rotor turns counter-clockwise.



Mke