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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:24 pm 
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I have been told that the 302 has 3 inches of stroke and the 351 has 3.5. How do you rotate the engine to measure from TDC to BDC with a piece of wire?

 

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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:43 pm 
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If the belt is tight enough you can just use your hands on the fan, unless your a p***y with broom stick arms. Thats what I did on my last two clevelands.

People will say high compression will make it hard, but thats not quite true. Because you turn it so slow the bleed off helps with that.

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:13 am 
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I used to be able to hand turn my motor, but after the rebuild and upping the compression I cant any more. Now I just put a socket (cant remember the size, someone else will) onto the nut in the drive pully and throw a wrench on it, works a treat

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 12:34 am 
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Turn it by hand eh, never tried before. I'll give it a go 2morrow. Thanx

 

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Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:47 pm 
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take all the spark plugs out and the comp doesn't matter at all.
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