Firing Order

[Guest Anonymous]

Does anyone know the firing order on a 75 bmw 2002?

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[Guest Anonymous]

Now you have just learned that Zündfolge means firing sequence.

[Guest Anonymous]

the valve cover reads 1342 but I don't know where to start from.

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[Guest Anonymous]

Where do you start on the cap if the vacuum advance is facing towards you??

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[Guest Anonymous]

Take the spark plug wire off and check the fitting of the distributor cap. distributor cap should go in one way only ( I found out this weekend) there is a grove on the distributor that the cap will engage in. Then from that point on, take the cap off and find the grove marking on the distributor. No matter what position that is, the #1 plug wire goes there. #1 cylinder is the one closest to the radiator. work clockwise to the sequence 1342 wires and you should be set.

Good luck and if you need pictures, I will be home within the next two hours..

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[Guest Anonymous]

As you mentionned, the vacuum line or diaphragm has nothing to do with the settings.

1- Put your engine at TDC on cylinder #1

2- Align the rotor's notch with distributor's notch

3- Put cap back and plug wires starting with #1, #3, #4 and #2, going clockwise and #1 being at the notch.

4- Now your motor has zero advance/retard.

[Guest Anonymous]

until recently, all their 4 cylinders turned the opposite way of everyone else's.

[Guest Anonymous]

..because that's what all the cartoons did! 8-)