But was no1 at TDC on the firing stroke or the exhaust stroke?

 

Firing. Both valves were shut. I've took the dizzy out and stuck the rotor a 180 and put the leads back to its original position. Ive never been wrong bit somethings stumped me.

 

I'm confused by this post ? You mention stuff about re setting the rotor position and putting the leads back to their original position. But I cant see any comments about this above? The firing order for your Rover should be 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2.
The common mistake is to fit the plug leads with 5 and 7 mixed up.

If your number one cylinder was TDC on a compression stroke and you had all the plug leads fitted correctly it should have fired up assuming you had fuel and spark ?

If you had to swap 1 and 8 leads to get it to start did you just have these two leads in the wrong holes in the dissy cap?

On most RV8 engines with a dissy number one plug cap on the dissy faces almost to the front of the engine. Have you done a proper TDC check on number 1 cylinder with a TDC tool to mkae sure you know the true TDC of number 1 cylinder?

 

I'm confused by this post ? You mention stuff about re setting the rotor position and putting the leads back to their original position. But I cant see any comments about this above? The firing order for your Rover should be 1-8-4-3-6-5-7-2.
The common mistake is to fit the plug leads with 5 and 7 mixed up.

If your number one cylinder was TDC on a compression stroke and you had all the plug leads fitted correctly it should have fired up assuming you had fuel and spark ?

If you had to swap 1 and 8 leads to get it to start did you just have these two leads in the wrong holes in the dissy cap?

On most RV8 engines with a dissy number one plug cap on the dissy faces almost to the front of the engine. Have you done a proper TDC check on number 1 cylinder with a TDC tool to mkae sure you know the true TDC of number 1 cylinder?

It would appear I had it on a exhaust stroke. My rushing the other night had caused me a slight cock up.

As to the rotor arm. I pulled the dizzy out and spun it 180. No 1 lead is now point back toward the front of the motor.

Just a few fuel leaks to sort and it should be ok

 

video looks good hope that wasn't the fuel pissing out underneath lol

 

No I haven't got hoses sorted yet but I stuffed he garden hose down the hole while it had a few fire ups. The headers need gaskets but all the time I spent a making them and I don't like the sound. What to do