Posted by Hank on Friday, October 12, 2007 at 23:08:55 :
In Reply to: Timing question posted by Tim Holloway on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 21:44:05 :
... pull out #1 sparkplug and remove valve cover and rotate crankshaft until cylinder is all the way up with both valves closed on #1. That is TDC. The reading on the timing mark may surprise you - if so, then you have your culprit.
Slant Sixes are famous for this problem - one of them kicked all of our ****s with this problem for a whole day before we figured it out.
H