Re: Distributor alignment

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In a message dated 9/22/99 9:59:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jamies@rkmi.com 
writes:

<<  Last night I set the engine to TDC, I
 think, the red mark on the flywheel was centered in the hole and the #1 
piston
 was at the top of it's stroke.?.?.?  Anyway, once that was set, I aligned the
 rotor to point at the #1 plug wire and the notch on the distributor.  
Tightened
 the 13mm nut to hold down the distributor and....nothing.  No start.  Still 
code
 2113.  I'm throwing in the towel, please help.   >>

Jamie- The piston can be at the top of its travel, but in the exhaust stroke 
not the compression stroke. You must get TDC on the compression stroke. I am 
non familiar with your engine, but if you can put your thumb over the 
sparkplug hole while turning the engine over, the compression will push your 
thumb off. You can also tell TDC by watching the valves. Both intake and 
exhaust must be closed for TDC. If you kow for sure you are on the exhaust 
stroke, you just need to rotate the crank one full turn. HTH
Frank Santoro
1990 V8
1998 A8