Flywheel Timing Marks

Unknown

At some point in the distant past, some humorless bustard machined off

the ring gear teeth on my old '29 flywheel and installed a new ring gear. I

call that unknown person a humorless bustard for two reasons.

First, they seem to have cut the flywheel down too much and used shim

stock unevenly to tighten the resultant gap. The cranking system worked fine

on this '29 engine, so I'll probably have no worries using the same setup on

the '26.

The second reason for the name calling involves the timing marks. When

they cut off the old teeth, the marks went with them, and the bright boys

didn't bother to rescribe or repunch them! This caused a pal of mine and I a

certain amount of consternation trying to locate the nonexistent marks by

looking through the timing hole and hitting the starter pedal. Removing the

flywheel cover and using a flywheel wrench revealed the ugly truth, and the

motor was timed by ear which seemed to work out fine.

What to do now? The flywheel is off, freshly painted and ready to be

remarked, but where should the marks go? The only current marking looks like

this:



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Is that mark significant? The only other way I can think of to mark the

wheel would be to "copy" the marks from the '26 wheel. To do this it will be

necessary to figure out a reference point common to both wheels (like the

"offset" mounting stud) and count off the number of teeth. I had in mind

punching a dot and paint filling it with white to make it stand out against

the pointer.

Does anybody have any comments about this? Is there an easy way to

determine which stud is the "offset" one? I had in mind using graph paper to

spot the "offset." Should the marks go back in the factory locations or

"advanced" some? What tool should be used to make the marks?







Paul O'Neil, Hudson29@aol.com

Fullerton, California USA



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