Hi i got a reground cam and im trying to degree it in and im having abit of trouble.

so i first put the cam in and lined up all the marks how it says in the manual but in the manual it says put no1 cyl to TDC but when i do this the crank keyway points way off from where it supposed to be in order to line the cam dowl pin to it

so i ignored this and just aligned the cam dowl pin to the crank key in a straight line and put the timing chain onto the dots (10 links)

know the problem i have is dialing it in I have a dial gauge and degree wheel and found true TDC

i rotated the engine till there was no lift in the intake (lobe pointing down) then i zeroed my dial gauge.

i then rotated the crank till it read 0.050inch on the dial gauge and my cam card says opening shuld be 8.5btdc and this is exactly what i got and repeated for the exhasut side and i got opening of 46.5 BBDC which is also correct

but when i got to measure both the closing times of the intake and exhaust valves i get something totaly different the exhasut closing at 0.050inch i get 116 degree ABDC or 66degree from TDC

the spec sheet says 0.5 ATDC

they way i measured the closing is once the lobe is at its higest point i zero the dial guage and turn it 0.050inch (so the valves start to close that much) then this should give me the reading i need right?

or am i doing this wrong?

also how do i find total lift i thought you zero the dial gauge at zero lift and keep turning till the gauge stops and that will gove me my total lift but i get a wrong reading according to the cam sheet (talking about timing ADV is what it says on cam sheet so i think thats the total cam lift?)

Thanks!

YouTube have quite a few things on degreeing a camshaft that i found quite helpful when i was trying to figure out what it was and how it was done.