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Old Nov 5, 2013 | 05:02 PM
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Originally Posted by oldford
It's very uncommon for the missing tooth to be at zero degrees.
With Bosch systems on 4-cylinders on a lot of makes it was at 108 degrees BTDC.
The reason is that the teeth are used for controlling spark timing and a missing tooth would make that slightly more inaccurate and a whole lot more difficult to write the software correctly.
Usually there's only 1 position the flywheel will fit, because of the pattern used for the bolts. It's unlikely that it is fitted in a wrong position.
Cheers for the info mate. I'm pulling my hair out at this stage so considering any posibility!
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