>Greg Wrote - However, I was wondering if anyone out there has a 2 liter on
a stand or out of the car who can do the following: Put the chains on
properly, put the front cover on and put the engine at TDC and tell us the
exact location of the cam dowel pin.
Ideally, The cam locator pin should be at 12:00 with thc crank at TDC. But
as the chain wears, the cam retards. With a 40K mile chain, it will be more
like 11:30.
To see if your "one tooth off" is not a cut and dry operation most times. It
first depends on postively locating TDC. The "stick in the the spark plug
hole" method is never going to make it. To degree the crank is not all that
hard, even with the engine in place. When the engine is on the stand, you
bolt on a piston stop on #1 cylinder. turn the engine until the piston hits
the stop, log the location on the crank pulley, turn the crank the other way
until it's stopped again and log that location. The middle point between the
two logged positions will be true TDC. This can be done with the head on and
engine in the car as well with a piston stop tool that replaces #1 spark
plug. I know these are availible, I think JEGS catalog lists them.
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