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Not a day goes by I don't ask myself that very question.

Toaph, See the attached JPEG. It's not very detailed, but it shows the distributor, the clamp's position on the distributor, and the drive dog (square bar) at the very end of the distributor shaft

The slot is at the top of your pinch plate picture. There is no stud just a screw/bolt that holds the pinch plate to to the oil pump housing, it allows for very little adjustment, and personally, I

BTW the dizzy lug is off center.

Every time I read your posts I ask myself, why one with so little skill or documentation and preperation would own this car!

Okay I'm able to get the pinch plate back on the distributor.? However I'm not seeing the stud on the back of the oil pump housing or the slot in the pinch plate (see attached pics).? I'm not able

Thanks for the detailed instructions.? I have come to the conclusion that if I'm going to be an Esprit S1 owner then I need to start doing this kind of maintenance myself.? I threw myself into the

I’ve had good luck sticking the distributor back in by leaving the clamp ring secured to the engine and just releasing the punch bolt but you need to twist the shaft to get the drive dog aligned so

Toaph, As you have discovered, there is a bias spring inside the oil pump housing. If you just loosen the distributor's retaining clamp(ie, back-off on the screw that tightens/loosens the 'pinch'

The clamp goes over that boss, right? It seems like you need to pull the screw and clamp off, then get in that edge of the distributor that you can see that should be internal and then the boss or

Okay, so I learned the hard way what my mechanic meant when he said that he can't adjust the timing or the distributor will pop out.? Please see the quick video linked below.? When I first tried to

Greetings, I acquired the lightweight steel flywheel and clutch native to early Turbo, asking whether it may fitted to my S2? Cheers Steve

Tim, Thanks for your usual thorough, detailed response.? I have no intention of monkeying with the vacuum/centrifugal advance.? I just wanna twist the distributor a little until it runs better.?

Okay, my bad. I was concentrating on too many other things at the time, and don't know enough on the subject, other than what you've tried to teach me (yet I still haven't completely mastered yet.)

Bill, You wrote: You 'WANT' 115 IN / 115 EX cam timing?? The 110 MOP is the design-correct MOP for the stock C-cams (both J-H and Federal Lotus 907s), and the engine will perform better with it than

Give 'er a go Bill, but I'd expect the 115 MOP to under-perform. The 907 is short on grunt until well into the revs and the 115 MOP will push the power upward as compared to 104. Cheers

Toaph, The Vacuum Advance and Centrifutal Advance are beyond the typical owner's reach to change. It can be done, but if you have to ask how, you're not up to the task... and the task is beyond the

Gents, I plan on doing a cam pulley upgrade soon. I think I can just flip the exhaust cam, and I have a C pulley from a JH for the intake, and have 115 MOP for both intake and exhaust. I thought I'd

Interesting point about specifying settings for emissions rather than performance.? I will definitely be taking timing readings and recording them with the corresponding anecdotal findings.? Since

Something else to keep in mind is that the WSM has specs for what Lotus had to do to get the engine to pass emission standards in the colonies. It wasn’t necessarily proving for the best running