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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NXcoupe" data-source="post: 985330" data-attributes="member: 11751"><p>Wow!  That sucks man.  Only thing to do now is to pull a plug and crank it around to TDC.  You need to put your finger in the spark plug hole on #1, rotate the crankshaft around clockwise until there is a burst of air pushes past your finger, continue slowly moving the engine over by hand until the air slows blowing past your finger.  Stick a long, thin screwdriver into the hole and slowly, I mean SLOWLY move the balancer watching the screwdriver, it should slowly stop moving and you can mark the balancer at the closest large hashmark as 0.  I recommend a 3 buck summit timing tape is in order.  As you're looking at the balancer, the numbers to the right are before top dead center, ones on the left are after tdc.  The timing tape will help that out as well.  Hope this helps man, and be careful cranking around with the screwdriver in there if you've never done it before, slow is the best!</p></blockquote><p></p>