Help - Dizzy/Leads/Firing Order

[graeme]

I've just fitted a new dizzy/rotor arm and I'm now putting new Magnecor leads on and I don't trust my diagram of which lead goes where. The numbers on the new dizzy and leads are not as they were. If I go by the numbers the lengths are wrong, and the new dizzy has guide numbers in a different order to the old one. Yes I know I can ignore the numbers, but I just don't trust what I think it should be... I don't believe magnecor would label the leads wrong...

Could somebody please ASAP check their car and post a definitive map of cylinder to dizzy, or point me at the page in the service manual. Please. I'm in a right pickle now...



Thanks in advance.

[ironside]

Cylinder 1 is the one on the cambelt side of the engine.
The one nearest the distributor is 4.

[graeme]

Ta, that's a start. So the longest lead should be 1 and the shortest 4. Which isn't the case.

And I still don't know what order the cylinder maps to the dizzy.

[graeme]

Wow. I was right to not trust my diagram. Put things back and managed to spark with an open exhaust valve. That's loud!

Really need a definitive dizzy-cylinder map from somebody. Ta.

[fd]

Fd

[graeme]

Thanks Fd. Very much appreciated!

[robin]

Fd

What did you draw that in Fd - I'm always wanting to scribble down quick pictures and have not found a good scribbling tool - they all seem total overkill and I can never be bothered to learn them ...

Cheers,
Robin

P.S. - just spotted the image name - LOL

[mac]

Have to agree with Fd there - most folk take one of at a time and replace - not all off and go Uh??? - sh*t!





Mac