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hey! witch way is the vaccume advance supposed to be pointing on a 80 luv? twards the front of the truck or tward the rear? just got the truck and i think the owner had installed it wrong. i have a haynes manual but that thing is so crappy i wont even wipe the crap off my ass with it. always buy chilton's!!! anyway please help with this stupid thing!!! thanks

Towards the rear of the truck.

thanks. thats what i thought. i bet thats the reason the truck wont run!!!

The Haynes book for the LUV is about the best one they make, I use the Isuzu Haynes I have to hold up my workbench, but the luv haynes is fine as a general reference. Most of the text and all of the pictures in the Chilton's luv shop manual are exactly the same.

If you've never had this truck running there could be a number of things wrong with it. I'd verify that the timing chain is on right. Put the timing mark on the crank pulley at 0 degrees, then pull the valve cover. The mark on the cam gear should be pointing either straight up or straight down. I have one truck that the DPO (Dreaded Prior Owner) lined the cam gear up backwards. I ended up just swapping plug wires to make the distributor timing line up with the cam. 1 for 4 and 2 for 3 makes it 180 degrees from normal. I never could get it to run just by turning the distributor around 180 degrees, but once I realized what was wrong and swapped the wires it fired right up.