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Date:         Thu, 23 Jan 1997 17:32:52 -0800
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From:         Mark McCulley <raven@halcyon.com>
Subject:      Re: More cylinder numbering

Pop off your distributer cap and turn the crank until the rotor points to the contact for the #1 plug wire. That will indicate TDC on #1. There's usually a small notch (more like a nick) in the distributer body at the #1 position as well.

At 01:19 PM 1/23/97 -0600, VWNUT@smus.bc.ca wrote: >Ok, so I now know the correct cylinder #s: >3 1 >4 2 > >Aside from checking the distributor rotor, how does one check for TDC >on #1, instead of #3, since both would give TDC on the crank, right? >Do you have to remove a spark plug & peer in, or is there a notch on >one of the pulleys, or what? >


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