A: The piston also pushes some air on exhaust. I either take the valve cover off, or just guess, then switch wires 180 if I get backfire. From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx> To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 65 Rambler - Gasoline Geyser - Help?! Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0411221238121.3207@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Mon, 22 Nov 2004, Brian Hagen wrote: > I gotcha. Im off 180 degrees. I have a question though, following your > steps. > After my fingers gets 'farted' on Cyl 1, shouldn't it already be at TDC? > (or > close). Oh yeah, it should be close. Depends on how long you CLICK the starter, it being an imprecise process you should check; the marks oughta be close though. It's one of those things... 'do I waste 5 minutes doing a redundant check, or 45 minutes later re-doing it?' Though once you get the hang of what's actually going on in there, tossing new distribs in a randomly-turned motor even having to rotate the oilpump is no big deal. tomj