Installing a New Distributor
The distributor for the '65 196 that you see in this article was crushed in transit. I removed the old one. It still had a good condenser, but the vacuum advance was in bad shape. The distributor can be removed by taking off the clamp:
Put the new distributor in:
Slide the distributor down and wiggle it to get the gears to mesh:
I ended up pointing the distributor back slightly to keep the hose as far away from the head as I could. Since you really can just figure out where on the distributor number one is, the rotation isn't a huge deal, but to make the wire set fit right, I suppose you need to be roughly correct if the wires are short. That is, the distributor can go in at a bunch of different angles. Since we figure out where the wires go, and in what order, it doesn't really matter if you miss a tooth or two on the gears. Make sure that the engine is at top dead center (TDC):
Here is what the angle of the distributor looks like at TDC:
Verify TDC by peeking in the number one cylinder. The top of the piston will show:
The cylinders are numbered 1-6 from front to back. Hook up the wire the rotor is pointing too after the above procedure to number 1 cylinder. Continue by hooking up wires in the firing order, which for the 196 is 1,5,3,6,2,4 , counterclockwise.
For further information on adjusting the timing, see Setting Ignition Timing - Distributor Rotation.
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