Re: alfa-digest V7 #1372

[Ed Lutz <montjuic@domain.elided>]

You should be able to find this item in any good speed shop. It shouldn't 
need to be an Alfa specific tool but just ask for a piston stop used for 
finding top dead center. Its used when timing cams to verify, or find true 
TDC on a motor.

Ed

At 09:18 PM 2/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I remember an article on the web about a piston stop that described making a
>tool that could be used when tightening the front pully on an Alfa spider.
>Does anyone
>know where the url is ?  The tool worked by removing a spark plug and
>screwing it into
>the whole until it touched the piston.  The crank would stop turning and you
>can torque the
>nut ?  Can someone substitue a 14mm 50 mm long 1.25 pitch  bolt rather than
>the tool if you could find
>such a monster rather than the tool.
>
>Doug K

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