Hi,

I too have been gone a long time. The whole Brickboard site has been missing.
I just happened to open up a favorite or reading list about the electronic speedometer from Art Benstein on my desktop and it worked!
For a long time we got error 403 error codes.

I remember you having a problem and may have responded to your thread I don’t remember.

Yes the flywheel has to be clocked to line up under the CPS when the number one cylinder is up and the crankshaft is on zero. Both valves on that number one cylinder will have to have both lobes of the camshaft pointing upwards. Just for sure a dot on the front camshaft sprocket should align with the on the back cover and the distributor rotor be under number one spark plug wire terminal.

On the M47 transmission the flywheel also goes on only one way.
There are holes all the way around the flywheel but there is a solid space that is the trigger for the CPS signal. It has to be up under the CPS when the flywheel is bolted in place.
There’s like eight bolts in the flywheel but there is only one correct location when the bolts go in. So you can be off seven more times from that one point of view.
It depends where you want your number one cylinder to be because the ignition system divides things equally but the distributor only has two ways it can be off by 180 degrees if the wires could hop around but they don’t. (:))
Yes! Miss locating the flywheel has been done before.
I have read where extremely frustrated people have actually moved those other things around instead of redoing or checking the flywheel. They get it to work or sell the car cheaply or even give it away twice.
You can find one bad off that way “up top side” and it’s a “tell” that someone has been messing up big time.

At least you caught a good lesson from all this!

As far as posting pictures it probably has been done but if the Brickboard falters like it has again I don’t know how much it will help. But all cars have flywheels or sensors that need their alignments.

I’m sure that Cleanflametrap.com or Art Benstein can tell you how to try a post.

I have never pulled an automatic transmission though I have one car with one, but I imagine it’s built the same way with sheet metal and slots punched all the way around and a solid area.
The bolt patterns still make it right on or real far off, that is again, on where you view the rotation of timing.


I hope this will post or I wasted a lot of time talking to myself!

Phil