Top Dead Centre Question

[aeronca65t]

Chris: To *me* the solid state ignition is the <span style="text-decoration: underline">magic</span> stuff.
All smoke and mirrors as far as I can tell.

.....(BTW: I looked at your webpage, did you repair all of the Watkins Glen "Blue Wall" damage?? Hopefully it was mostly limited to sheetmetal... Is #909 the rebuilt car??)
-Bear-

Yes, the "blue wall" damage was all fixed. That damage happened a few years ago. I had the car fixed and racing at Summit Point 3 weeks later (where it ran a Four Hour enduro).
I tore up the left front suspension, but it wasn't too bad to fix. I had to replace left-side fenders (F & R) and door. They all came off a parts car I had.
Car used to be #11 but I changed to #909 when I switched to vintage because there was already a few #11s racing vintage. I also have a #909 Ford Escort NASA racer. ~BOTH~ can be seen here.

 

[Hap Waldrop]

I got a tool from CV products, I'm rather fond up, pretty simple, it has 14mm thread to screw into the spark plug hole, then in the insdie of the that it has an adjustable threaded plunger you dial up or down. You diel it to the point in which it will act as a piston sop, then turn the engine over by hand until it the stops on the adjustable plunger, make a reference mark, then rotate the engine by hand the the other direction, make a reference mark, split the difference between the tow na d you are at absolute TDC. Any one rebuilding thses motorsor fiddling in this area, should take the time to make a top timing pointer, Jeff at Advanced Distributor makes a ready made bolt on kit for folks not wating to make something thermselves, that is really a neat piece, I also seen it as simple as a constracting color mark on the timing cover and balancer.

 

[aeronca65t]

Yeah, I made one of those from an old spark plug shell. I use it with a dial indicator (I'm cheap!).
Great for setting cam timing.

 

[Hap Waldrop]

Yeah, I made one of those from an old spark plug shell. I use it with a dial indicator (I'm cheap!).
Great for setting cam timing.

Well you may be cheap but a piston stop is a great way to find TDC. I made my own in the past as well, now they just got this pre-made trick one for like 12 bucks so I fiquired what the hey, actually a customer bought me one as a present Nial, I'm pretty cheap too

 

[JPSmit]

I KNEW it had to be Yellow, but I DIDN'T KNOW it had to be a #2...
Must be one of those SCANTRON compliant motors....

:crazy:

-Bear-

Actually, Jack had forgotten that as I have a 1500, it's a lead free head :lol:

On the bright side, she runs again! Not well but she runs again. thanks all and we'll keep you posted