QuestionQUESTION: i need to know the firing order and something i can print out for an 89 plymouth sundance
ANSWER: Hi Angel,
You didn't say which engine is in the car but the manual shows that car used either the 2.2 or 2.5L engine and both have the same firing order: 1-3-4-2
I am not sure what you mean by (something I can print out) so let me know what else you need to know.
Roland
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QUESTION: something i can print out for my dad like a figure or a picture of the system that way my dad can make sure he puts everything back together right because i had to replace the spark plugs and now i have to replace the cape and rotor I've only had the car for about two months.
AnswerHi Angel,
The rotor can only go on the distributor shaft in one manner so that is not a problem.
Now for the cap: If your cap has a small round nob between two of the spark wire attachment sockets, that round nob when the cap is installed should face the front of the car. I don't recall what it is for, so if your cap doesn't have it, don't worry, you can install the cap itself in either position. The question then is which wire goes in which spark wire attachment socket. The #1 plug wire goes in the socket that is close to the #2 plug itself. The rotor moves clockwise so the socket next to plug #3 gets the #3 wire itself, then the #4 wire goes in the socket that is toward the left front of the car, and the #2 wire goes in the socket that is toward the right front of the car. If you haven't removed the distributor it should be just fine then. If you removed the distributor then you have to set the engine to TDC of the compression stroke of the #1 cylinder and mesh the distributor shaft so that at that point the rotor should be pointing toward the #2 spark plug. If that doesn't work, then you may be one full rotation of the engine out of synch and what you thought was TDC of the compression stroke was actually the exhaust stroke, so you need to turn the engine 360 degrees by hand with a wrench on the crank bolt if that were the case, or reposition the rotor shaft so the rotor is pointing toward the #4 wire instead of the #1 wire. And if you want to check the timing you warm the engine up, remove the plug on the coolant temp sensor (located on the side of the thermostat housing which will temporarily cause the fan to come on but ignore that) and then you merely rotate the distributor with the engine running so that it reads 12 BTDC with the engine idling using a timing light on the #1 spark wire. Reattach the plug to the temp sensor after you set the timing.
Roland
*If you set it up so that the 1 and 3 wires are closest to the valve cover while the 4 and 2 are closest to the radiator, that should do it. I am logging off now but I will be back on tomorrow at 8 am CDT if he has any questions.
