Ok...you're Crazy. ;)
It used to be a timing reference...but timing isn't controlled by the
distributor anymore.
If you want to find (close to) TDC on any cylinder, grab this high-tech little
gadget: A Wine Cork. (Shave one side to fit snug into the plug hole and turn
the engine over with a "Bump Switch" (aka: remote starter button). Once the
cork pops, you within a few degrees of TDC.
- Bernd
> OK, call me crazy but i just had to say it. If you are trying to find TDC
> on the #1 cyl and you point the distributor rotor at a marking that you made
> on the dist housing where the #1 plug lead is at, then wouldn't you be
> finding the position where your ignition timing is??? Did no one think of
> this or doesn't this apply to our trucks? It DID work for me in the past
> b/c my motor was timed AT TDC, but I don't think that it will work on the
> DAK, b/c I know that NO car manufacturer times it's engines at TDC from the
> factory. Does this make sense to anyone else???
>
> Now let me don my nomex suit and press send...
> ~Josh
> 00 CC V6
>
> >From: Tom <Kaboinga@aol.com>
> >Reply-To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> >To: dakota-truck-moderator@twisted.twistedbits.net
> >Subject: Re: DML: Top Dead Center?
> >Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 14:49:04 -0600
> >
> >You have to make sure it is TDC for the number one cyl... thats why you
> >need to
> >do the markings on the distrib. If you are going to pull the timing chain
> >and
> >sprockets - I would set TDC for number one. I'm sure why you were
> >recommended
> >to set it at TDC for number 4. But basically yes - you are turning the
> >crankshaft untill the line mark is at zero (with the rotor tip pointing at
> >the
> >one piston mark)
> >
> >Wes Weems wrote:
> >
> > > so basically find it on the crank, and then turn the engine over so many
> > > degrees?
> > >
> >
> >--
> >Tom
> >http://members.aol.com/silvereightynine
> >1989,V6,Auto,8 footer
> >
> >
> >
>
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