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Old 06-26-2019, 11:09 AM   #15
alexiskai
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Default Re: Locating dimple on timing gear

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Originally Posted by wmws View Post
I agree with SS except you can find the dimple at the top of the exhaust stroke. If you set your rotor there it would be 180* out.
If your camshaft gear is placing the dimple under the timing pin hole at the top of the exhaust stroke, the gear has been installed wrong. The camshaft gear rotates at half the engine speed, so the dimple will only come around to the correct position on the compression stroke.... that's the whole point.
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