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22-01-12, 03:11
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Hi Stuart
Of course the inductive pick up does not work with the shielded wires. In fact no inductive pick up will work with the shielded wires. I get around this by removing the No 1 Cylinder wire and using a chunk of standard suppressed 7MM ignition wire in it's place. I just cut the ends off the wire and strip it back a 1/4" on each end so the conductor is exposed and jam it in the spark plug and the Dist cap making sure it bottoms out and the exposed conductor is touching the contacts in the spark plug and Dist. (8mm wires are too big to fit in the spark plug). I use a spare 12V battery to power the timing light. That timing light allows me to check the spark advance functions on both Vacuum and centrifugal. You can use the dwell meter on 1 cyl engines with the light you just have to double the reading on the 2cyl scale This light picks up the RPM from the spark plug wire. So as long as the light is fed with 12V it does not matter what voltage the system is. Matthew Quote:
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22-01-12, 07:27
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Hi Stuart
Ideally you should use a suppressed Ignition wire when using an inductive pick up timing light. Unsuppressed wires can mess up sending a signal to the timing light. Older timing lights actually plugged in line in of the plug wire so not being a suppressed wire was no issue. As for the battery. You could use the one battery in the Iltis. Or a spare battery. It dose not need to be a full size battery a motorcycle battery or even a battery from a emergency light will work. The timing light draws very little. The remote push button is a good idea. I use mine all the time for bumping the engine over when doing work on it. Matthew
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22-01-12, 09:20
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If you need the factory timing specs you remove the rubber plug on the drivers side on top of the bellhousing and line up the 0 on the flywheel to the arrow tab just inside of the hole. I was lucky to be able to pick up the factory Iltis power pack stand and ad some bolt on brackets to make a great test stand for engines and all of the bolt on components like alt, starter, dist, TCI boxes.I used parts of a factory wiring harness to make connections a lot easier. see pics.
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22-01-12, 09:27
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I forgot to mention that if you have an original spark plug wire that came on the iltis from factory (its a skinny one) they will work with the magnetic pickup as they do not have the shielding on the wires. if you don't have one of those you can purchase the adapter from Midwest military that goes between the spark plug and the suppressed plug wire.
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#5
22-01-12, 20:07
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In some Iltis tools I picked up, there were two plastic items that have ends that look like they would fit on the MIL spark plug fittings. Are these part of the MIL timing testing system? I have never figured out how they would connect up. Would they be used for the older timing lights?
Stuart Cheers! Stuart[/QUOTE] would you have a picture of the tool ? Does it look like this one ?
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22-01-12, 20:27
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For testing the ignition system at the coil. It goes between the coil and the 2 wire leads, see pic
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22-01-12, 21:15
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For testing the 24V power going into the coil and the other cable which is the trigger from the TCI to coil
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