How to find tdc without removing sprocket?

[John Mark Dongon]

How can I find top dead center without removing the crank sprocket, covers, and belts that's in the way? My camshaft sprockets were removed so I cant use that as a reference.

 

[Bo0sTeD 4G63]

There are timing marks on your timing belt cover, another way you can find out is put a long screwdriver in cylinder #1 and rotate the crankshaft sprocket until the screwdriver is all the way at the top and the dowel pins on the camshaft are facing straight up.

 

[pauleyman]

If you camshaft sprockets are removed you need to know the position of the camshafs or you'll bend a valve rotating crank.