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Old 01-09-2022, 01:03 PM
Jim_G Jim_G is offline
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Hi Neal,

To answer your question: not very sure at all that the pressure I felt was actually the #1 piston arriving at TDC or pressure from the valve stroke. I’ll revisit this and confirm with a flashlight per Don’ video. Then will take off the disto cap and confirm that rotor arm is pointing away from block at 90 degrees. Then I should rotate the distributor until breaker plate tab aligns under rotor arm. Then start, warm up engine, put in gear and throttle up to cruising speed and advance to find sweet spot and back off slightly from there. Does this sound right?

Also, there isn’t an alignment pin on the end of my crank shaft but there is a 1/4 inch hole in the flywheel about 2 inches in from the teeth which seemed to line up 1/4 turn from 12 o’clock when I felt what I thought was the #1 compression stroke. So I turned flywheel another quarter turn and used that hole to get to TDC. I’m getting above my pay grade here

Thanks for the help,
Jim
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