RE: [Chevelle-list] Chevelle Hell

[John Nasta]

Pull the #1 spark plug and put a cork firmly into the hole. Turn the engine over by hand until the cork pops out. That’s how you’ll know that you are on the compression stroke and not the exhaust stroke. Turn the engine until the #1 piston is at the top of its travel in the compression stroke, then check to see if the timing mark on your vibration damper is lining up to the zero on your timing scale, and whether your distributor is pointing to the right cylinder.   Rube Goldberg says that if the distributor is 180 degrees out, you can just install the ignition wires 180 degrees from where they’d normally go, and everything would work just fine.   John Nasta