Fresh Startup Procedure.

WSUTARD said

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?

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On one rotation, when the 0 mark on the damper is lined up (with the 0 mark on the timing cover), #1 is ready to fire. After the next full rotation, when the 0 mark on the damper lines up, #6 is ready to fire. And so it alternates back and forth between #1 and #6 being ready to fire after each full rotation aligns the 0 damper 0 mark with the 0 mark on the timing cover.

That is why you have to determine if #1 or #6 is ready to fire by looking at the valve positions of #1 and #6 when the damper 0 mark is lined up. ONLY after you have determined if it is #1 or #6 ready to fire, can you properly line up the distributor rotor. Go back to posts 6 and 16...(Lots of 1's and 6's here LOL)