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Originally Posted by Jim Coleman
Read this online, I think this is where the problem is - I took it apart: When you install a cam or timing chain.. You install it so dot is over dot Cam gear dot at 6:00, crank gear at 12:00 This is NOT the correct placement for ignition timing.. This puts #6 piston at TDC compression stroke. You would need to rotate crank 360*, to get #1 on compression stroke.. Now the crank gear dot will be at 12:00 again, but cam turns at half the speed of crank, so cam gear will be a 12:00 now as well This is where you can set ignition timing now
Is this correct? Excuse my ignorance on this, I just don't know how to do it. Does this mean it turns over twice to get to 360 degrees? Clockwise?
Thanks,
Jim
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4 stroke engine, 720 degrees to complete 4 strokes.
Camshaft turns once 360 degrees, to crankshaft of 720 degrees.
I thought you had this Jim, when you pulled NO.1 spark plug.
Turn the engine BY HAND until you feel compression pressure under your thumb over the spark plug hole, then turn the engine until you are in the 10-30 BTDC range.
At this point, the distributor rotor needs to face the NO. 1 terminal on the cap.
Gary