TDC at compression stroke?
06-26-2007, 09:28 PM
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TDC at compression stroke?
now I am about to put my tomei cams in... this may sound stupid but I just want to make sure.
i was reading fsm throughly and it tells me to put cylinder 1 to TDC at its compression stroke.
at the moment i have my cams and sprockets out of the engine, so all the valves are closed.
I put the cylinder 1 to TDC, but I cannot tell if its at its compression stroke or not. but since the cams are out and cyl 1 valves are closed, it should not matter because if I turn the crank 360deg for the next stroke, it will end up exactly the same anyway
am I right?
i was reading fsm throughly and it tells me to put cylinder 1 to TDC at its compression stroke.
at the moment i have my cams and sprockets out of the engine, so all the valves are closed.
I put the cylinder 1 to TDC, but I cannot tell if its at its compression stroke or not. but since the cams are out and cyl 1 valves are closed, it should not matter because if I turn the crank 360deg for the next stroke, it will end up exactly the same anyway
am I right?
06-27-2007, 08:00 AM
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You are correct.. anther way to be sure is put your stock pulley back on and line up the line on the pulley @ 1:30 that will also tell you that you are at compression stoke TDC.
(Since you dont have the timing cover on that is why you have to guessitimate 1:30 because the timing cover has a mark you line up the pulley with.)
(Since you dont have the timing cover on that is why you have to guessitimate 1:30 because the timing cover has a mark you line up the pulley with.)
