just drained my CVT.

Someone swapped the leads on my 6 cylinder falcon when I was a young lad, I never even noticed.

Why do there have to be so many different firing orders for V8s?

Who remembers points? My Crown and my son's Corolla have points!

 

I was just pulling your leg

Only a master certified diesel mechanic can help you there

Um .... Tom's humor can be a bit hard to follow sometimes

On the old inline 6's, you can swap around 2 leads, even 3, without too much hassle. You won't have as much power, but as long as #1 is left alone, nothing dramatic

To keep us on our toes, that's why

I've never understood why the Ford 289/302 have a different firing order than the Ford 351

A lot of heavy duty gasoline trucks didn't change from points to transistor until the late 1970's. For something like a grain truck on a farm, infrequently driven, the points are about as reliable as anything else and easier to work on

A common mistake I see now is the younger crowd restoring/rewiring an older vehicle, such as that old farm truck, and neglecting to put a ballast resister in. Most stock wiring harnesses had the ballast as part of the wire harness, but you can use an external ceramic resister.

They wonder why the points burn out so fast, and assume back in the good old days, folks were changing points/condenser every week or so