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Replaced my distributor cap yesterday and noticed the #1 plug wire was in the #2 spot, #3 was in the #1 spot, #4 was in the #3 spot and #2 was in the #4 spot. Before I had the engine rebuilt last November #1 use to be at the 2 o'clock position now it's at the 4 o'clock position. Any thought on why these plug wires would be changed. The truck is running fine. I am going to look into this in more detail this weekend.

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76 LUV

May have the distributor turned to the wrong position and just moved the wires in the cap to match. Vacuum advance unit should point to the rear of vehicle or your left. Assuming 76-80 engines.

This is what it looks like. #1 plug wire is bottom right. It use to be top right.

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76 LUV

Better pic.

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76 LUV

i ended up doing the same thing because i stuck mine in backwards so i just switched the wires around.
did it with the stock distributor and when i swapped to the electronic one i switched them back to the right way..

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Luvless
1980 Mikado-Sold.

1993 Lexus SC400 my Daily
2004 Yamaha WR250F my new love in life
2016 Toyota Camry my girls ride

Could the oil pump be 90 degrees off..

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76 LUV

Yes it can be installed wrong during the rebuild, however it hurts nothing so I would not worry about it at all.
There is a punch mark to line up on the oil pump drive that they probably paid no attention to. But as I said, hurts nothing.

agreed
the only problem that would come from it is that the wires would be backward

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Luvless
1980 Mikado-Sold.

1993 Lexus SC400 my Daily
2004 Yamaha WR250F my new love in life
2016 Toyota Camry my girls ride

i timed min backwards the book says time it on number 4 i timed mine on number 2 before i got a book so i switched my plug wires around becus number 1 and four are top dead center at the same time 2 and 3 are the same

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