stand in front of your enginr and look at your heads. Notice that they are uneven? The head that sticks out the most have cylinders 1-3-5-7 #1 is the closest to you
remove that heads valve cover, remove cylinder #1 spark plug rotate engine and watch #1 valves when they are both up that is compression stroke. take a small pick and feel for the piston while rotating engine when you feel the piston that's #1
also look at your balancer the notch should be in line with your timing marks
The front cylinder on the driver's side is #1.
It is the cylinder closest to the belt side of the engine.
If you look at the distributor of the car, sometimes they are marked with the cylinder number on the cap. Find number 1 and follow the spark plug cable to the spark plug. That will be No. 1 cylinder.
Number one is designated by where ever the spark plug wire from the number one cylinder is placed. Number one cylinder is the first cylinder on the the drivers side at the front of the car.
Front cylinder, drivers side of engine.
For the 2.5 4 cylinder, number one is the first cylinder from the passenger side.For the 3.5 V6 cylinder, number one is the first cylinder in back from the passenger the side.
timing for a 350 is 12 oclock on dot and set at number 1 cylinder tdc and disstibutor should be at number 1 plug wire and you should be able to start it right up with this
Drivers side, first cylinder up front.
For a 2000 Ford E-350 , gasoline V8 engine : The engine cylinder locations are numbered : 4 - 8 3 - 7 2 - 6 1 - 5 front of vehicle
Typically it is the one that points toward the number one cylinder. Technically it can be any of them as long as the wires are in the correct firing order. When cylinder number one is a tdc, the rotor should be pointing at the number one cylinder. Thus the number one plug wire.
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there is no hard fast rule here. but typically with the cap off and number one cylinder at TDC on compression stroke. the rotor will point at number one cylinder on the engine.