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Subject:Re: Timing vanagon without timing scale, only insturment ?'s
From:David Beierl
Date:Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:21:36 -0400

At 11:43 AM 10/22/2008, B.J.R. wrote:
>Going through your equation below, I did my measurements on the crank pulley,
>  62cm = 620 mm/72 = 6.21111x5=43.055/10=4.30cm

Erm...620mm/72 = 8.61...mm last I looked.  And as Mark said, the /72
represents five degrees, otherwise it would be /360.  So 8.5 mm (plus
a "red one" if you're feeling picky) should be just about right.

:-)
d

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