I HAD A RESPETABLE MACHINE SHOP BUILD ME MY 383 MOTOR FOR MY 91 RS SINCE THE OTHER ONE HAD A ROD KNOCK. I HAD A SHOP INSTALL SINCE IM ALLWAYS WORKING. SO HERE IS MY PROMBLE I HAVE A WHIPPLE S/C, SO I RAN IT FIRST WITH NO S/C AND 68LBS INJECTERS IT RAN OK . NO I INTALLED MY S/C BUT BEFORE THAT I TOOK THE INTAKE OFF TO PORT THE HOLES TO 50MM WHEN I WENT TO REINSTALL THE DISTBIOUR, TDC WAS WAY OFF THE HARMOIC BLANNCER WITH TDC MARK AND MY DISTBIOUR IS "VERY" HARD TO INSTALL AND WONT POINT TO NUNBER ONE. HELP!!!!!!

 

two things come to mind if you are using the old ballancer it could have slipped or the mark on the timing cover could simply not match the ballancer I think you need to verify tdc....unless you are simply fighting the oil pump drive if so there are two ways to deal with that. one is to get a long screwdriver and line it up the other is to have the engine set to tdc install the dist, rotate the eng. by hand untill the dist. falls into the oil drive, and then verrify proper install. it is easyto be off a tooth.

 

I guessed that h/b slipped out of place, but I don't understan why it does not point to #1 when at "tdc" with #1 up at conpersion stroke..... and second I have a second motor laying around the house and can put the distbiour in it with no problem acutlley I have two distbiors and they both go in fine but my stroker no go... it fills like the cam moved?... can that happen?

 

anything is possable, but not likely, if it goes in but will not go all the way down, try to install it off a tooth, one at a time, sounds like the oil pump drive is off, work one tooth at a time untillitwill go down if it will, then get along flat head screw driver and line the pump drive up,i hope this helps

 

The oil pump shaft is fine it gets suck on the cam gear I think..... I just bout a new distubior and still no luck!

 

so..it won't go in no matter where the rotor is pointing?...sounds bad you might want to have someone local look at it. sorry out of ideas mabe the cam is messed up... seems unlikly if it was running before you pulled dist.

 

The dist should slide in with a little jiggling atleast to within 1/2" of the intake surface. If it wont make it this far the intake may be shifted or there is something stuck in the cam gear. Look into the hole and see if the aligenment of the intake looks good.

 

hay what if i had a flat tap cam and now a roller cam would that make it diffiult to put in the distbiour?

 

Should not matter.