CLUTCH^Master

Whats the firing order on a 86 w/ aluminum heads?
Thanks

Nathan Plemons

Same as any other SBC

1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2
:cheers:

CLUTCH^Master

thanks

CLUTCH^Master

turns out i need another combo, can someone help :banghead:

Caboboy

:confused:

CLUTCH^Master

I tryed that combo and it doesent seem to work. car runs for half a second and dies.

severe-1

In what location is the #1 plug wire in relation to the distributor?

CLUTCH^Master

drivers side closest to the radiator,(distributor is the one closest to the front drivers side as well)

severe-1

The distributor cap has a square section on the drivers side where the power/tach wires plug in. the # 1 plug wire needs to be plugged in to the second "post" in a clockwise rotation from this square block. This is the # 1 spark plug location. One off in either direction will cause the car to do what you described above.
The square block should end up between #7 & #2.


[Modified by severe-1, 12:06 AM 3/29/2003]

CLUTCH^Master

Thank you very much. I will check the car and hopefully that will be the problem.

severe-1

:thumbs: :flag

CLUTCH^Master

well those wires are where they need to be but my problem could be that i'm refering to a camaro manual and and i don't know if its the same firing order as mine. :confused:

severe-1

All small block chevy's are the same, from 1955 to 1998.

CLUTCH^Master

ok it kinda runs for a millisecond and dies, i rev it it dies, the firing order is in as you all stated. it shoots up a service engine code. any ideas on what i did wrong?

severe-1

What did you do in the first place when all this started?

CLUTCH^Master

(from the begining) my car had a miss fire in it. i the changed the fuel filter and it made it a little better but the miss remained. so today i replaced the cap and rotor and it got a little worse. then i began listening to differant web sites and i changed my firing oder 5 times and tryed to start the car. a couple of times the car would start but the car would miss even worse. so now we went back and followed the maunal and now the car will turn on the die right away and i don't know if i messed up the timing or what. :banghead:

severe-1

Unless you turned the distributor, you did not change the timing...
Pull the cap again and double check everything. Also check the coil and the connections to it.

CLUTCH^Master

yeh, i am pulling the whole thing apart again as we speak, something is just not right.

Wheelman

pull the code and see what it is..........

CLUTCH^Master

ok i just finished puting it back exactly as it was before i did anything to it? It still will not run. I was a litle low on gas so i added 5 more gallons, still not runing? what the hell. its just those 3 brackets and bolting the thing down! I am rely geting frusterated