Hello,
I put new trigger points in this weekend only to find out they were not the problem causing my engine missing on 4 cylinders. I did notice something that I cannot beleive I missed before, however.

When the engine is at TDC on cylinder 1 and the rotor is pointing to the #1 plug wire on the distributor cap, the alignment notch on the distributor housing DOES NOT line up with the rotor, it's off by about 40 degrees. Please correct me if I am wrong, but the rotor should be exactly aligned with the notch, right? Before I pull out the distributor to fix this, I wanted to get confirmation so as not to cause a bigger problem.

Thanks for the help. -Mike

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1973 280SEL 4.5