Eric,
It is one of the most accurate methods I know, providing you have some
heavy oil on the piston rings and valves for sealing. The nearer you
initialy get to TDC and the smaller the bubble is you use, the more
accurate the method. You will have to renew the soapy water when you are
on TDC first time and then retry with a smaller bubble. You have to
repeat once or twice but once you have a nearly flat `bubble`/membrane
you can move your piston one thou and you will see a change in the soapy
film.
Allans method is only accurate if the crank and piston pin are in the
same plane as the cilinder center lines, which is in most in line
engines. If it is of center (as in some V engines) the arc on the pulley
from left to TDC is not exactly the same as from right to TDC, although
the difference is very slight.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
Eric Frenken wrote:
> Kees, I doubt that you'll come as close to the accuracy as Allen's method.
>The piston moves near to nothing a few degrees BTDC and ATDC.
>
> Eric
>
>
> Clever idea.
> Another method is using a sparkplug core with a small diameter piece of
> tube welded in. Bring the piston to TDC as best as you can, apply some
> soapy water over the top of the tube and create by slowly cranking the
> largest bubble possible, that is accurate TDC.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> NL
>
>
> allen c miller jr wrote:
>
>> My engine builder taught me a failsafe method for finding top dead center
>with
>> (literally) 'dead nutaccuracy'. I have posted a description and photos on the
>> Healey Forum maintained by team.net.
>>
>>
>> allen miller bn2/m
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