Recent content by Rap1404

Is this correct? Bring #1 to the compression stroke, screw the stop in and move by hand until it stops, mark it. Turn it counter clockwise until it stops, mark it. TDC should be between those two marks?

Im ordering a piston stopper and a new balancer, going to replace it, make sure i have tdc and check back in with you guys. Thank you!

I was kinda hoping it would be that. Then take off the valve covers and check back?

Would a bad sensor cause this? Should i try to replace it again?

To give you guys the whole story... the boat was running great and i decided to buy a fuel injection kit from affordable fuel injection, the engine never started to i decided to replace all those parts to no avail. Then i took off the kit and but the carb back on, it now starts but the timing is...

I just replaced the cables, cap and rotor, sensor and coil (all oem) now i also think it might be the sensor. The rotor shows scratches like it was rubbing against the sensor, i checked it again while cranking with the cap off but it looked ok. Since we're talking about base timing it would be...

The weird thing is that ive set the timing on this engine before and has been fairly easy, thats why im thinking this might be a part thats defective? I cranked the engine until it blew air out of my finger and then set the engine to the line on the balancer, like i said ive done this several...

I just redid TDC on #1 and set the distrutor to point at number 1 and im still reading 40 degrees advance at idle. I also redid the wires and have a new coil and pickup sensor, im puzzled idk what to do. Thanks guys

Hey guys! Long time reader but first time poster. I have a 99 rinker with a mercruiser 5.0 carbed vortec with a thunderbolt 5 ignition, i was changing all the ignition related items (sensor, plugs, wires and cap/rotor) and not I cant seem to get it timed correctly. I put it on base timing mode...