re: top dead center with a dowel question
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re: top dead center with a dowel question



On Wed, 1 Dec 2004, Dan Curtis wrote:

> >You never answered the basic question:
> >When you set the #1 piston to TDC power stroke, do the marks
> >line up, or not? If not, how far are they off?


> The timing marks should be pretty close to lined up perfectly at TDC unless
> your timing chain gears
> are not aligned properly.  

(I was thinking mainly that locating TDC#1power with fingers,
dowels, valve-cover-off, etc, isn't extremely precise; it mainly
gets you in the ballpark, after which you usually rotate the
crank 'til the marks line up.)







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