Where to put the missing tooth?

[TheSilverBuick]

sigghhh-no not even pushed lately-returned it to the home garage in feb so we could actually work on cars that pay money, been busy ever since. HOWEVER when it is pushed, it is pushed with a carb on that intake manifold!!

Cause that's so much better =P

[stage1scott]

Cause that's so much better =P

no no-you misunderstand-BETTER would be if you could hurry up and make this stuff work on your FE so once it is all dialed in you could come make it work on my FE!!

[TheSilverBuick]

The postal service tracking says my spare pulleys were in Vegas at 12:30am this morning, hopefully they caught a truck ride up here right after that. Mail delivery is usually around 10am... Hopefully I see it today!

[TheSilverBuick]

So where do I have to put the missing tooth relative to TDC? Put the first tooth at TDC? Do I line it up with the TDC? With the megasquirt does it really matter?

So a few months later I just picked this up from a local machine shop. For $25 they trued up the inside of the crank pulley so it was flat, mostly scraped the paint off of it, and opened up the trigger wheel. The next question becomes, will the inside pulley and/or the balancer interfere with the trigger wheel signal since it's so close?





I have some wiggle room between the balancer and the inside pulley. Once I get the balancer back I'll probably see about setting it halfway between the two.


It slides on to the pulley real nicely, I should be able to pin or tack weld them together once I figure out where I want the missing tooth to be located. I need my balancer back from the machine shop to set this up.

[CDMBill]

That is a great start as you can optimize the sensor location and then rotate the wheel to match based on all the conflicting (not really) advice written above.

Where did you source your escort ring? I have to set up another wheel as I'm changing dampeners.

[TheSilverBuick]

From a junkyard. Pulled the balancer right off an early 90's escort, got home and hammered it off =P

[dieselgeek]

You won't have any problem reading that wheel on your pulley. Ford VR sensor will do the trick. Here's a part number they should have at your local store: BWD brand, part #CSS800

I think that's the escort sensor. flange mount, easy to work with, and hard to kill.

[TheSilverBuick]

Cool, thanks!

[GH]

Dieselgeek, I sure killed one of those Ford sensors when my bracket was vibrating around and the EDIS wheel was scraping on the sensor. I reworked the bracket and bought a new sensor, now it runs great.

[TheSilverBuick]

Hitting the sensor with a rotating trigger wheel doesn't count as a sensor failure =P