Do the weights look backwards to anyone besides me?

[mccauley444]

This is a quicky repair distributor I got from an auto parts store I installed to get my ride going. I set the initial timing w/o the vacuum connect and went to test the centrifugal advance, only to have it retard the timing way down into retard range

Every pic I have seen the weights are the other direction as show in the diagram, vs the photo.

Am I just imagining things? Entirely possible. Been working with points since the mid 70's and I've never comes across this.

I tried reversing them but the weights will not fit.

 

[G72Zed]

Try flipping the center plate.

 

[mccauley444]

Try flipping the center plate.

That I did not try. Thank you

 

[TomatoStripeZ28]

Try flipping the center plate.

Old eagle eye. Lol

 

[G72Zed]

Old eagle eye. Lol

My wife says the same thing about me

Except it’s like “ old Bird brain” lol

 

[mccauley444]

lol

 

[TomatoStripeZ28]

My wife says the same thing about me

Except it’s like “ old Bird brain” lol

I felt like one of those this weekend.

Jeff

 

[FS87LT]

Does an Eagle have a "bird brain"?

 

[Hogdaddy]

The weights still look backwards compared to that diagram.

 

[mccauley444]

The weights still look backwards compared to that diagram.

My observation, but in all of the years I've tinkered with cars, never took a distributor apart.