Rusty Muffler
Active Member
On my 57 Belvedere 301 v8 I first get my #1 piston (drivers side front) to TDC on compression stroke. Then I line up the DC (dead center?) mark on the crank pulley. But when I drop the distributor in the rotor is pointed in the 8 oclock position? According to the FSM the rotor should be pointed in the 5 or 6 oclock position. If the distributor was 180 degrees off the rotor would be in the 2 oclock position, both wrong. It's telling me that the timing chain could be off and this is a newly rebuilt motor. What am I missing here? I'll double check tomorrow and make sure she's on the compression stroke #1 but I adjusted the valves and the valves at #1 have play like they're on the compression stroke.