Degreeing a Cam Shaft

RustyRatRod said

You need to the lifter bore tool. Coming off the lifter with the dial indicator.....how will you make sure the indicator is DEAD PERFECT straight with the center line of the lifter? You cannot. If it's not perfectly parallel with the lifter, your reading will be inaccurate. You're askin for help. I'm just tellin you the right way. Plenty of people will come on here arguing with me sayin "I've done it this way for 175 years and it's always worked, blah blah blah" and maybe they have, but if the dial indicator is not dead perfect, they've done it wrong for 175 years.

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So I thought with the intake off I could get the measurement tool lined up via the magnetic base... Yea I was wrong...lol. Oh well. So I do need the lifter bore tool. I appreciate everyone being patient with me as I work through this.

I was on Mancini racing website and they have a couple of lifter bore tools, however I was hoping to find a tool I could use where I would not have to remove the head. So essentially one that is long enough. Any ideas?

TT5.9mag said

Also it sounds to me like you’re leaving the piston stop in after rotating back and forth, which would keep you from ever reaching true TDC.

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Apologies I did not mention that I do indeed take the piston stop out after I have found TDC. Sorry for the confusion.