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As for finding TDC, pull #1 sparkplug, stick your finger in the sparkplug hole and have someone "bump" the starter untill compression pushes your finger out. Then watching the timing marks on the balancer, continue to turn the last little bt to TDC. Drop in the distrubutor with the rotor pointing to the proper place. This will probably get it close enough to run with a little luck. Greg

No problem bro, Rotate the crank to TDC and plop the distributor in so it points at #1 wire on cap. If it backfires thru the carb it's 180 degrees out, pull it up and rotate 180 degrees so it's pointing the other direction.Fire it up and adjust the timing to spec.

Greg O's technique will work just as well.........

-- Mad Dog

On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:30:07 -0400, Mad Dog wrote: I cleared the code and moved the distributor tightened it back and fired it up and pulled the codes. Two times of that was all it took. As fsr as adjusting the timing to spec i don't believe the computor will let me. THere is no actual timing pointer on my 96 k 2500. Some of the gm mechanics probably have a trick for that but, maybe they just get it cloose and let the brain finish time it.

Ok, sometimes they will put a chisel mark on the base of the distributor that will line up with a chisel mark on the manifold. You have to set the initial timing yourself, the computer will not set it for you.

-- Mad Dog

chisel mark? hell, the damn distributor is made of plastic. I had over

300,000 on my other chevy and I've only got 151,000 on this one. We looked a five reman at the NAPA warehouse and every one had the ears made of epoxy. Is there a solvent or some other way to remove the blue thread lock when i put my next cap on in 50,000 miles? The instructions say to use a thread chaser to avoid breaking the housing. Have you ever seen a sheet metal screw thread chaser? THis whole thing started when i broke an ear off of the housing with a new cap. I drove it for two weeks with a small c-clamp snugged down and the hanlde tie wired