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> How to determine EXACTLY where TDC is?, Valve adjustment advice needed
JeffBowlsby
post May 2 2010, 10:34 AM
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Eyeballing alignment of the rotor to the tick mark on the dizzy body seems so imprecise...for adjusting valves. Is there a method of locating TDC for each cyl PRECISELY?

1. I thought about making some kind of rotor replacement device with a pointer that could extend down close to the tick mark, but thats only good for cyl 1. All cylinders needed.

2. I thought about making a special trigger point plug adapter with three long wires, and attaching it to me DVM on the buzzer setting. When the trigger points would make contact, then that would indicate...? I am not sure that the trigger points make contact at TDC, I think it is at some different point in the cycle.

Any time proven methods?
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post May 9 2010, 11:34 PM
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Okay here are a couple pics. I believe I am at TDC center. My fan was painted & I am pretty sure this is the mark. I have #1 at TDC using a staw as my guide while looking through the hole in the fan housing. But my rotor is pointing towards the hole (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)


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Jeff Bowlsby   How to determine EXACTLY where TDC is?   May 2 2010, 10:34 AM
Tom   Jeff, From reading posts on here, it seems to...   May 2 2010, 11:02 AM
Vacca Rabite   Toms right. Due to the cam layout of our cars (th...   May 2 2010, 11:06 AM
Gint   No it isn't more important to do it that way. ...   May 2 2010, 11:16 AM
McMark   On a running car you can use the rotor to determin...   May 2 2010, 11:35 AM
realred914   On a running car you can use the rotor to determi...   May 10 2010, 08:29 AM
JRust   how can you view the rotor when teh car is runnin...   May 10 2010, 08:36 AM
URY914   I found this picture somewhere and thought someone...   May 2 2010, 02:12 PM
r_towle   Jeff, I can get you onto two. Via the timing hole...   May 2 2010, 05:19 PM
Dave_Darling   Then, if your so inclined...remove the engine and...   May 2 2010, 10:28 PM
ClayPerrine   Just do this the easy way..... Take off BOTH valv...   May 2 2010, 05:41 PM
McMark   Okay, since Dave upped the ante: :poke: You shou...   May 2 2010, 10:35 PM
ConeDodger   Okay, since Dave upped the ante: :poke: You sho...   May 9 2010, 10:55 PM
avidfanjpl   And my 2.0 is so early an engine it has a red mark...   May 2 2010, 10:36 PM
Cap'n Krusty   Unless you have a VERY unusual fan, there's al...   May 2 2010, 10:40 PM
charliew   My experience is with t1 bugs. It was always real ...   May 3 2010, 10:28 AM
JRust   So when you have top dead center on #1 & have ...   May 9 2010, 10:49 PM
McMark   Yup, when the #1 cylinder at TDC on the compressio...   May 9 2010, 11:01 PM
JRust   Okay here are a couple pics. I believe I am at TDC...   May 9 2010, 11:34 PM
avidfanjpl   Just went through this too. Steve Gaglione set me ...   May 9 2010, 11:42 PM
realred914   for adjusting valves you dont need to be very perc...   May 10 2010, 08:34 AM
jimkelly   pic   May 10 2010, 08:47 AM
realred914   pic Gawd, that is horribly complicated. just...   May 10 2010, 09:50 AM
JRust   What I am not seeing is how I adjust the distribut...   May 10 2010, 08:51 AM
realred914   What I am not seeing is how I adjust the distribu...   May 10 2010, 09:54 AM
McMark   What I am not seeing is how I adjust the distribu...   May 10 2010, 10:07 AM
SLITS   What I am not seeing is how I adjust the distrib...   May 10 2010, 10:39 AM
ClayPerrine   Just to make it more confusing ...... The distr...   May 10 2010, 10:49 AM
vsg914   Dang, there are a lot of different ways to find td...   May 10 2010, 10:30 AM
JRust   Dang, there are a lot of different ways to find t...   May 10 2010, 10:33 AM
JRust   Okay so I am not off 180 degrees. I am off somewhe...   May 10 2010, 10:30 AM
vsg914   Cool. I haven't seen a rev liming rotor in man...   May 10 2010, 10:39 AM
vsg914   I agree with Slits. Seen more than one car with pl...   May 10 2010, 10:44 AM
McMark   Ignore where your rotor is pointing. It's irr...   May 10 2010, 10:46 AM
McMark   Your rotor is pointing at the line in the distribu...   May 10 2010, 10:50 AM
JRust   Your rotor is pointing at the line in the distrib...   May 10 2010, 12:21 PM
ClayPerrine   Whats with the rev limiting rotor? Any benefits t...   May 10 2010, 02:10 PM
underthetire   One way to find TDC on # 1 is remove a plug, place...   May 10 2010, 10:51 AM
vsg914   One way to find TDC on # 1 is remove a plug, plac...   May 10 2010, 11:40 AM
McMark   The rev-limiting rotor has a weight that will disc...   May 10 2010, 01:01 PM


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