 one Shaber 1000 here. Today we're working on the VAT. We're going to fast forward you through most of this because it's not really how-to video it's just kind of letting you follow along joining us on getting this whole core VAT running again. So let's get into this and let's put a distributor down in it. Okay guys so I'm going to point you back here the best I can. The sun's a little bright so I think maybe you can see what's going on there. What I'm going to do is I gotta unplug everything and then we're going to pull this top off but I'll go ahead and pull this top off now. There's only one screw that's tight I do believe I think it's that one this should come out. Right under here's the coil so what I gotta do is unplug the coil wire, the power wire, the tack wire, there's the tack wire, here's the power wire, then I got some wires down here in the back that have to be unplugged and there's no way I would be able to get you in here to see this so it's kind of a pain. I'll watch out so the plug looks like that I don't know if you see that. I'll show you on the other one. Now we've got a there's four screws and I'm not sure what size they are can't remember so the quarter inch five sixteenths uh these are screwed in and the new cap we got or the new distributor has a cap that it's got the clamps I'll show you all that here in a minute but we got to take this off here I need to see which way that rotor's pointing uh and what I'm going to do is when I drop the new one down in I'm just going to point the rotor to where this one was at and it should be close so remember you're firing the order guys what is it monkey I told you three times on the way home. Oh I don't know she can't remember one two three four no no it's not small block Chevy one eight four three six five seven two uh some of the one eight four three six five seven two some of them are printed on the intake manifold I don't know if this one is or not but I already know it so I'm not worried about it but uh write that down mark your wires if you have to someone's already marked these I think or I don't know I don't know this is shrink wrap so but if you know the firing order just make sure your distributor's pointing when you put it back in where it was or if your point putting a new one in so um now I gotta pull there's a nut down or a bolt down in here for the hold down for your distributor can't remember what size it is can't remember if it's nine sixteenths or five eighths on this one I'll show that to you too once I get this off here but let me see let me go get my little socket and ratchet thing so I can get these screws out so I can pull this cap off here but in the meantime I do want to find number one which will be on the driver's side over there and that should be it right there that number one first plug yeah yeah that's the first one okay so they got number one here all right so let me get this cap off of here and I'll see which way it's pointing and then we're going to pull this uh distributor up out of here okay I got those four screws loose they don't actually come out I'm going to take this out pretty nasty looking it's got a little water in it because all these leaves up here and this is ripped so it's building up water right in here and dripping it down in to the distributor so now we got a little bit more room to work with here it's like a nine sixteenths now they make a distributor wrench for these things that come down like that that'll go underneath like an s or z I got one in there but this one you don't really need it on it's kind of handy but now I can see that the distributor is pointing looks like four or three I'll check it here in just a second as I get this bolt out of here there's the uh the keeper looks like that okay now yeah that cap was bad so you get a new cap yeah I got everything yeah we got the whole unit uh yeah I know so ahead number one right here so it looks like it's pointing directly at 184 number four so that's how we'll put the new one down in here now we're just going to lift this right up out of here and you don't have a lot of room that's how that got torn by the way trying to get that out all that and that and that cap that was way too big for it just like that okay there's the distributor the distributor itself is good but I see a lot of stuff here that that is not right this is your electronic ignition module right here I see black tape around there for some reason so I know a lot of people call them modulators they're not a modulator it's a module so we're going to go over here we're going to open up the new one and then we're going to bring it over here set it down in okay so let's open this up we're not going to be able to start this thing today because I still haven't done the VATS system yet the VATS bypass I might check and see if it's got spark but I doubt it with the VATS system acting up it usually shuts everything down so this is well packaged for paperwork and this is what we're putting back in it so let's go ahead and move this up you closed it never close someone else's night okay see this is just a this stock it'll be fine for that there we go that's all seen see the other one had the screws that come down through here and screwed right into it this one has the what they call the clamps so we'll be taking this off sticking this down in got our new gasket yeah that is pretty we're not going to be putting the cover on this so no no all right well now we're gonna go over back over to the car well I'll show you how this cap comes off let me grab my screwdriver these take a Phillips or a standard it's usually best to use a straight screwdriver but I had the Phillips handy so it'll work I want to go to put it on I'll probably use a straight screwdriver we've got them plug this it's like that this is the coil right inside the cap and then we'll just set this down in it'll have to come back like this because once you set it in it'll turn or it might turn back but yeah because of that worm gear on the bottom so let's go over here let's see if we can get the set back down in where it needs to be she's pretty then we'll continue on okay so I got me a mark right here where number four is so this wire down here is what plugs this plugs into which that's what's so hard to get to because it doesn't come up any more than that it's real hard to plug into and so let me check this again okay just checking everything out I'm gonna try to get this down in here should go like this now we're gonna where's my mark right here's my mark the side there there's a slot I don't know if you can see that there's a slot that turns your oil pump so sometimes you may have to get a screwdriver a long flat bladed screwdriver and turn that pump a little bit one way or the other so that can drop down in where you want it so let me go get a screwdriver now I didn't hit record but what I did was just took this stuck it down in there and turned my pump a little bit it doesn't have to be perfect perfect because you can adjust this here and I'll be adjusting of course the timing once this car is running with the timing light I don't know if you can see how that's spinning there it's how it spun around it spun right to my mark like I said sometimes you just got to take your long screwdriver get down in there and turn that turn that little rod that's down in there now I'm gonna go ahead and plug this in now because if I get the cap on it'll be a lot harder so these out of the way here so I'm gonna plug that in and then I'll bring you back and stick the cap on barely reach it but there it is that's the free pickup coil fires the injectors let me get that plugged in then we'll put the cap on this is a lot of a lot of stuff here you know that then we'll put the wires back on it and this part of it'll be done I probably won't do the I probably won't do the the vats bypass till tomorrow but anyway let me go and get this plugged in and now let's put this cap on make sure these ears are out of the way now in here there's a little a little tab right here and there's a notch in that distributor where that tab is going to go so once you get this drop down in make sure your clamps are out of the way and then just set that on there and give it a twist and you'll feel it drop down in there it is you can also see where these clamps will go so that's in there I got that loose enough just loose enough to to turn when I go to start it but it's not going to be today all right there we go let me go get a long screwdriver let me clamp that on then we'll get the wires all put back on it really is easier than what it looks the hardest part is just getting that that to drop down into the into the oil pump shaft it's not that big of a deal really okay there's that part of it done okay guys so I did check this for spark but the fuel pump's not pumping so that could be the vats or it could be something wrong with fuel pump it's not really a major issue but what I did was I took this pcv hose off and I squirted some fuel down in there hit it mama let's see if it'll fire it's not gonna run but it might fire and for a second then oh my god nurse told them guys said well I'm gonna hear it run well there you go you heard it right they can't no not on here oh yeah but I mean yeah yeah they come over here at run yeah but it ain't for sale now no beach in this sucker hit it again mama sure yeah you hear the pump no does that room room too it's a fact it goes room room goes room room all right I wasn't expecting that today huh shouldn't have ran that long I didn't put that much gas in turn the key on when you turn the key on listen behind you see if you hear a buzz of noise for like two seconds and then it'll quit turn just turn the key turn the key on yeah try it again okay guys I'm sorry about the wind like I said it wasn't that really a how to because it's just something that we're doing um because if you've never done a distributor it's probably best you don't go on YouTube and try to figure out how to do that yourself anyway I mean I'm not being a smart alec I'm just saying you know that's that's kind of you know if you're one tooth off your stuff's not going to run it's going to be bad and mess up a bunch of stuff so yeah you should know what you're doing so yeah I mean but and if you're watching this you're probably a gearhead you might probably already know how to do that but like I said this is not a how to um just what we're doing trying to get this thing going yeah because you're keeping it now aren't you oh hell yeah speak up it's windy hell yeah now that's roaring yeah it's roaring yeah it's going rum rum it's rummy yeah roaring yeah it makes a little noise don't it yeah that's excitement number five be driving my father's car though well yeah but we got something you know like I said I'm going to go ahead and bypass the vats on it and we're probably just going to go ahead and put a new fuel pump in it and then we're going to go from there because injectors ain't going to fire anyway if you don't have any fuel pressure so what it was doing was just running off of what I put into it that's why it would hit real good and then just start bup bup bup bup because because this thing sitting at an angle so it was probably running on cylinders one and three or something like that you know so that's why it was doing that but at least we know now it does run again so she's happy about that yes and I gotta figure out all them wires there's vacuum lines missing there's still a vacuum leak the header on the driver's side on the left side here none of the bolts are tight there's a gap in it so I'll probably have to put a new gasket in that I know one of the bolts is cross threaded crooked in it so and that's an aluminum head so I'm not sure what I'm going to do about that so I may have to pull that header clear off drill that out and put a helicoil in it because usually if you if you try to straighten them threads up with thread chaser into aluminum it doesn't work real well I got the head gasket set ordered for the Tacoma so when those parts come in we'll get started on it pull the head off it and get that broken plug out of there and we'll see how bad that is so anyway went ahead and ordered a carburetor for the tractor there so because I know it's going to be bad but I went ahead and ordered one so all right guys well thanks for watching appreciate it another episode of the Corvette for you are you got to say yep she's happy well I'm relieved a little bit at least we can move it around you know we get to that point where we can not yet not yet because like I said it's got a major vacuum leak you know that's why it revs up real high um so I mean you're not going to want to put it in gear when it's idling at 2200 rpm right um so anyway a little bit out of time right a little bit okay she better admit the man alleged I'm gone for now mutt so she's out for now y'all bye guys