I figured out how to read my timing pointer accuratly. For anyone else who is having trouble with their ignition timing pointers here is the answer. Take out your #1 spark plug. Put a long skinny screw driver down into the cylinder and rest it on top of the piston. Then with a socket on the crank bolt, rotate your motor until the screw driver has reached its highest point. This will make sure that your #1 cylinder is at TDC. Then look at the TDC groove ( the far top one) on the top of your crank pulley and see what is pointing to it. Because you know that your motor is at TDC, whatever is pointing at the TDC mark is the correct pointer spot to you use to measure the timing.


Modified by trecool44 at 5:26 AM 2/10/2006


Modified by trecool44 at 5:30 AM 2/10/2006

 

think should be 2 "markings" you line up. just keep in mind a V, i don't know how to explain this ****.

 

bump, sry for such a stupid question, but i need to get it right

 

uh.... rectangle? The pointer works like a rifle sight, you line up the two pointers straight onto the middle of the three-in-a-row marks on the crank pulley. You have to look from up above straight down onto the pulley, looking through the sights that stick out of the plastic cam covers.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by movingIIshadow &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">uh.... rectangle? The pointer works like a rifle sight, you line up the two pointers straight onto the middle of the three-in-a-row marks on the crank pulley. You have to look from up above straight down onto the pulley, looking through the sights that stick out of the plastic cam covers.</TD></TR></TABLE>
yeah you have to lean over and eyeball it straight down like a rifle sight..

 

bump

 

I thought the white one like a centimeter apart from the three colored ones was always the TDC mark.......