Thanks Tabe! I'm still curious though, whether this really is the case, at least with my engine (2.0 aircooled). It doesn't seem as if anything moves up and down - rather, it appears to move side to side. This makes sense to me when I picture the horizontal layout of the pistons/cylinders. Are the sparkplug holes different on different engines, perhaps? Or am I just being inordinately dense? :) Thanks! Mike. On 5/28/05, tabe johnson <xtabe@yahoo.com> wrote: > First of all, I would use something soft like a piece > of wood dowelling, not something that can scratch the > cylinders. > > Anyway, get your pencil (or whatver), stick it in > #1 spark plug hole, then crank the engine slowly until > the pencil starts to move out of the hole. When the > pencil stops moving, that's close to TDC, either on the > compression or exhaust strokes. |
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