Originally Posted by tclederman
Originally Posted by wolffcub
Remember the ball is not actually tdc. It should be 5deg before with all the info I have found over the years.
That is correct for most year flywheels, but the timing mark could be before or after TDC depending on year and engine (216/235/261) flywheel.

To complicate this, people often changed flywheels for various reasons.

My head just exploded.

Can I at least assume that the timing mark is close enough to TDC for initial timing/ startup purposes? Or can the mark be way off and meaningless if the flywheel was replaced?


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