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Number 1 when at TDC. Passenger side front of engine is #1.
Number one cylinder is located driver's side front of engine. With the # 1 piston at TDC on the compression stroke, the rotor will be pointing at #1 plug on cap.Number one cylinder is located driver's side front of engine. With the # 1 piston at TDC on the compression stroke, the rotor will be pointing at #1 plug on cap.
Yes it is, It has no choice but to be at TDC.
Locate No 1 cylinder of your engine. it is usually on the passenger side of the engine V8 block front. it is also identified as the most forward portion of the left cylinder bank remove sparkplug cylinder no 1 on the balancer turn Engine (manually) until piston of clyinder no 1 is in top dead center (TDC) the balancer ( extention of the crankshaft forward, towards the radiador)should have a mark to show that TDC Note: in a 4-cycle engine the piston reaches 2 (two) times TDC so make sure it is the TDC where the sparkplug fires. ( That is indicated on the balancer mark) Remove distributer cap, the rotor now points direct to terminal No 1 of your cylinder no 1. This pocedure is fail safe, in case you dont know if someone had the distibuter removed from the engine for whatever reason.
WHEN INSTALING THE DISTRIBUTOR THE ROTARY BUTTON HAS TO BE POINTING AT THE NUMBER 1 CYLINDER AT TDC
Just about to fire no 1 w/engine at TDC on compression stroke
it depends on your engine: 1) 4G64/G (galant?) 3-7 before tdc 2) 4G64/L (lancer?) 2-8 before tdc
get the first piston on the engine TDC (top dead center) take the cap off the distributer and adjust it until the rotar is pointing at #1 cylinder then it will be enough in time to start then use a timiing light from there
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When the # 1 piston is at TDC on the compression stroke, the rotor is pointing to at the # 1 position on the cap. # 1 cylinder is on driver's side, at front of engine.
Cylinder 1 at TDC adjust 1,5,6 Intake 1,2,3 Exhaust Cylinder 4 at TDC adjust 4,5,6 Exhaust 2,3,4 Intake
I'm not sure what engine you have but on the 4ze1 which is what I have in my trooper having the arrows face both up (cam gear and crank pulley) means the engine is in tdc for the number 4 cylinder. If the arrows are facing one another it is tdc for number 1 cylinder.