I have a 1993 C1500 4.3L. I had to change out the intake gasket over the weekend. In the process I lost time.
I'm just wanting to make sure I'm following the procedure correctly as I just can't get the engine to fire.
I set the #1 cylinder to TDC on the compression stroke.
I did this by pulling the spark plug, and holding my finger over the hole while rotating the engine with a wrench.
when I felt the air pushing hard against my finger I put the mark on the crank on the big notch. I assume that is the TDC mark.
I then marked the #1 plug on my dist. cap, marked the base of the dist. and lined the mark up with the rotor.
I'm dead on that mark.
I have unplugged the electronic advance.
It stumbles but will not fire and run.
I have been slowly retarding and advancing the cap for two days.
The truck ran fine before I swapped the intake gaskets.
I also didn't pull the plug wires off of the cap when I did took it off. I also marked each wire with the cylinder number before pulling the wire off so I wouldn't get them crossed.
Am I doing this right, and just need to keep easing the cap around? I'm at my wits end with this!!
I'm just wanting to make sure I'm following the procedure correctly as I just can't get the engine to fire.
I set the #1 cylinder to TDC on the compression stroke.
I did this by pulling the spark plug, and holding my finger over the hole while rotating the engine with a wrench.
when I felt the air pushing hard against my finger I put the mark on the crank on the big notch. I assume that is the TDC mark.
I then marked the #1 plug on my dist. cap, marked the base of the dist. and lined the mark up with the rotor.
I'm dead on that mark.
I have unplugged the electronic advance.
It stumbles but will not fire and run.
I have been slowly retarding and advancing the cap for two days.
The truck ran fine before I swapped the intake gaskets.
I also didn't pull the plug wires off of the cap when I did took it off. I also marked each wire with the cylinder number before pulling the wire off so I wouldn't get them crossed.
Am I doing this right, and just need to keep easing the cap around? I'm at my wits end with this!!
