Thread: W123 Cam timing help!!!!!
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Old 05-20-2002, 10:04 AM
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The #1 piston is on the exhaust stroke when the cam notch doesn't line up and on the compression stroke when it does line up. This is an every other rotational even. In other words, it takes two revolutions of the crank to equal one revolution of the cam shaft.

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