Posted by Clint Dixon [172.68.90.25] on Friday, October 27, 2017 at 10:05:46 :
In Reply to: Re: In theory yes.. posted by jim lee [108.162.246.236] on Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 21:21:27 :
I do not own any military Dodges, but if the engines are anything like that in the Civilian Power-Wagon, you should have a small pipe plug above the #6 piston. The old shop manuals show how to set timing by physically touching the top of the piston to find TDC. They used a special dial gage that screwed into the hole reached down to the piston but you can use a thin rod and any machine shop dial indicator with a magnetic base or just figure out a way to clamp one in place so it will not move.
That is how I time my engines - physically off of the #6 piston. I do have as much trust in the timing marks on the crankshaft pulley. Who knows what engine it originally came off of and if the marks were placed correctly when it was manufactured.
Junior