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Old 03-23-2011, 10:26 AM
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When you brought the engine to tdc the cam must also line up for you could be 180deg out, and if you set the valves 180deg out the engine will hardly start if at all and you will get back firing due to it being out of time. Behind the right side fan cover is the flywheel. The T lines up with the poinder on block. This may be off slightly depending on timming advance built into the cam, but the T should be close to the pointer. Now with the valve cover removed the large hole in cam sprocket should be pointing toward seat back and the either 2 small holes or lines should be parralell with the top head surface. This puts the piston at tdc and the heals of the cam lobes up. Engine is at this point in time. The reason I asked is that sometimes people set the valves with timming 180deg out or the cam sprocket skipped due to a streached chain and this will throw the timming out.

TOM
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