HEI Help

I grabbed another junkyard distributor this past weekend to replace the other HEI unit I had that had a dinged up shaft and bushing. This new distributor is an original odd-fire HEI out of a '76 Skylark. It has a new pick-up coil, capacitor and harness, rotor, cap, coil, brand new 8 mm Taylor wires, and new AC plugs and I'm having the same rough idle issue as before. The timing is set dead on 5 degrees. I've tried to swap the wires around 180 degrees again without success and then back and also tried moving them one terminal to the left and then one to the right. Nothing has help so far. Anything above an idle is ok, but does have an occasional miss and the passenger side is sputtering more than it did with the points. Anyone have any other suggestions? Maybe a defective component (ex: cap, rotor, etc.)? I think I'm going to bring it back up to TDC and try to start all over.

 

when i got my jeep it had a odd fire dist.with a even fire cap.idled like a fouled plug or bad spark plug wire.just something else to check.bob

 

Thanks for the suggestion Bob. It does have the odd-fire cap with the two blank posts.

 

I have an odd fire in my 71' and I'm running with a re-manufactured even fire distributor. It idles fine and runs great. I've check the block numbers and the motor is definitely an odd fire. Other members in the group confirmed it was an even-fire distributor when I posted pictures. I even took a picture of the crank shift and matched to one picture in the V6 power book confirming the crank was an odd-fire crank. The only quirky about it is that on start up it may occasionally sounds like it wants to run backwards for just a second then it's fine. Go figure!