[DeTomaso] pneumatic kit to find TDC

[Will Kooiman]

It looks like a whole lot of gadget for a simple enough task.

You can remove a valve cover and watch the valves.  The compression stroke
is TDC right after the intake valve closes.

If you don't want to remove a valve cover, remove the #1 plug, and cover the
hole with your finger.  Don't stick your finger all the way in the spark
plug hole.  Just cover the hole.  When the piston comes up on the compress
stroke, it will blow your finger off.

You can use a screw driver to find TDC.  The screw driver will stop getting
pushed out the hole as the piston comes up.

I have also used a spark-plug-TDC-locator.  It is essentially a piston stop
that screws into a spark plug hole.  You turn it over by hand until it
stops, mark the balancer, turn it over in the opposite direction, mark the
balancer, halfway between the 2 marks is TDC.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Rob Dumoulin
Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2010 7:03 AM
To: Larry Finch
Cc: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] pneumatic kit to find TDC

Sometimes the simplest solutions are the best.  This one also would only
show you TDC on the compression stroke, which is when you want to line up
the distributor too.


On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Larry Finch <fresnofinches at aol.com> wrote:

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