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.)