Fresh Startup Procedure.

Great advice everyone. I have a question for ensuring I am on #1 fire stroke. When I put in the new timing chain I ensured that #1 Compression TDC was aligned with the 0 on my dampener. It is my assumption that every time the dampener hits 0 that #1 is TDC on compression. Is this this case?
negative! each cylinder, including #1, travels thru TDC twice on a 4 stroke internal combustion engine. That means the crank spins two complete revolutions for every cycle of stroke events. So in short, when the timing mark on the dampener lines up with the timing mark on the timing cover it could happen at two distinctly different times, TDC on the compression stroke OR TDC on the exhaust stroke. Not to confuse you more, but that also happens on #6 cylinder only it's vice versa from whatever stroke #1 is on.