[DML] Re: Timing Gear Cover Leaking...Backfiring?
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[DML] Re: Timing Gear Cover Leaking...Backfiring?





PRV has a nifty way of locating TDC cylinder 1:

Are 2 plugs on top of the engine. One farthest from the "front"
(closest to the flywheel) is used to locate #1 TDC. Rotate the engine
to within 20 degrees of TDC via the timing scale. Remove that plug and
insert a foot long 5/16" (8mm) drill bit through the hole. Bit will
rest on #3 or #6 counterweight -- can't remember which -- into which
an 8mm indexing hole was drilled at Douvrin. Rotate the the engine
until the bit drops into the indexing hole. Engine is now at absolute
TDC #1. Be sure to adjust your timing scale accordingly.

This is a factory procedure BTW.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "stainlessilusion" <5n-@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> An alternate way of seeing if the #1 cylinder is at TDC is by sticking
> a long flexable wire down to the piston and turning the crank until
> you see from the wire that the piston is at TDC (That is, all the way
> at the top of the cylinder). If you pull the next plug in the firing
> order and use the wire there after #1 TDC and the next cylinder goes
> to TDC, then you have the correct stroke. If you do it and the next
> cylinder isn't at the top then its the wrong stroke. You've got to go
> by the timing marks, if you line the pully up with the mark and its
> the incorrect stroke- crank the engine around until it hits the marks
> again and try. Once it is at TDC you set up your distributor. -Dani B.
> #5003
> 









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