SnoopyDP wrote:
We have the front of the engine off so we can see the timing marks. We set rotor to #1 and we made sure #1 was on TDC both by compression and with probe in cyjinder.
Not sure I understand about one tooth off, because we put tenssion on the distributer but we can make minor adjustments while cranking the engine?
Base timing should be 4 degrees BTDC. 454's do better with more advanced timing, mine is set to 9 degrees BTDC. You said you had spark and compression, if you spray starting fluid while cranking the engine will it try to start at all? If not I would suspect that your timing is off, did you change the timing chain yet? Were the gears metal or a plastic type material? There is a wire from the distributor that has to be disconnected to set the timing(I think it is tan). Did you use plug #1 or plug #5 to set the timing?
