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piecesparts · 01-02-2007, 05:19 PM

Pull #1 plug out and rotate the engine until you feel the air coming out of the hole (This should give you a compression stroke), then turn the motor unti the piston is at the top of the cylinder, you can look into the hole or have a small soft stick in the hole to feel the piston top out and then start back down. Tha should be at TDC or real close. Now look at the dizzy for the pointer and where it is at, as well as the harmonic balancer. If it i s not at the pointer than you have probably slipped the timing marks. Are you using the right timing pointer and marks? Different motors have marks in different places. Some are down the front of the motor past the timing chain cover and others are off to the driver's side ot the block. Know where the motor is timed at, first.

01-02-2007, 05:19 PM	#4
piecesparts Parts and more parts Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Lebo, Kansas (middle of nowhere Posts: 6,821	Re: timing Q... Pull #1 plug out and rotate the engine until you feel the air coming out of the hole (This should give you a compression stroke), then turn the motor unti the piston is at the top of the cylinder, you can look into the hole or have a small soft stick in the hole to feel the piston top out and then start back down. Tha should be at TDC or real close. Now look at the dizzy for the pointer and where it is at, as well as the harmonic balancer. If it i s not at the pointer than you have probably slipped the timing marks. Are you using the right timing pointer and marks? Different motors have marks in different places. Some are down the front of the motor past the timing chain cover and others are off to the driver's side ot the block. Know where the motor is timed at, first.