Distributor leads to plugs help 88 pintara

[roadsta]

Hi can someone plz help, some dickhead has pulled the leads from te distributor to the plugs fom my 88 pintara dual coil,the family wagon, now its stuffed i need it to get to work the mrs is pissed off and i have no idea what im doing, can someone plz help? cant buy a manual locally either this sux!

a mud map or piix would be great thnx!

[The Dan]

Is it the pintara with eight plug leads (4 cylinder)?

[blind_elk]

Bring the engine around to TDC on #1. Remove the dizzy cap - the rotor should (probably) be pointing somewhere near "8 o'clock". Then work out which pole of the cap matches the rotor position - that's #1. Then, anticlockwise, they are 3 4 2.

Guessing similar for the second dizzy - or whatever it uses.

[roadsta]

Is it the pintara with eight plug leads (4 cylinder)?

yes eigt plug leads

[The Dan]

Bring the engine around to TDC on #1. Remove the dizzy cap - the rotor should (probably) be pointing somewhere near "8 o'clock". Then work out which pole of the cap matches the rotor position - that's #1. Then, anticlockwise, they are 3 4 2.

Guessing similar for the second dizzy - or whatever it uses.

You forgot to tell him that he needs to make sure it is TDC on the compression stroke. If it is in exhaust stroke then he will be 180 degrees out.

An easy way to tell is get someone to turn the engine over and hold your finger over the plug hole on #1(obviously you will need to remove plug #1). As the compression stroke comes around, the piston will force air out of the plug hole. Then you can keep turning the crank around until the mark on the pulley lines up with TDC....That is true TDC.

Once you have that you can then locate #1. Then turn the crank some more with the distributor cap off so you can see which direction the rotor button moves in.