Installation of Rebuilt Original Ignition Switch

[Penthode]

When I installed my ignition switch, I rotated the whole switch assembly as I screwed the cable to the distributor. After tightening, I then fastened the switch to the instrument panel. I did not remove the distributor.

One would have to disconnect the battery doing it this way. But you should disconnect the battery whenever removing the panel to install the switch.

[Dick So. Cal.]

Before you reinstall the cable into the distributor, clean the contacts on the cable and inside the distributor. I used a pencil eraser for the distributor.

Dick

[wmws]

If you are a fair shade-tree mechanic and have changed a few timing belts on modern cars this will be a piece of cake. One comment I could make is when ever I take the distributor out I have the rotor pointing to the # 1 button # 1 cylinder on TDC. Then you are sure to get it back in correctly even though it really will only go in one way with the offset in the distributor drive shaft. And unless this is a fine point car I would just slip that cable clamp over the head stud above the head bolt. That way you don't have to bother with it the next time you want to take the distributor out.

[alexiskai]

Originally Posted by wmws

And unless this is a fine point car I would just slip that cable clamp over the head stud above the head bolt. That way you don't have to bother with it the next time you want to take the distributor out.

+1 to this, I run the same way. The clamp was (is?) an anti-theft device, to make it more difficult for a would-be thief to hotwire the car. This is not a thing I currently worry about, given where I live and how I use it.