Got TDC!!

[DonaldSmith]

Hmm. So, you have your probe in the spark plug hole, over the intake valve, rather than in the plug hole over the piston.  It took me a minute to figure it out.  

Whatever works. 

[kencombs]

2 hours ago, Fernando Mendes said:

Hi folks.Since october'2006 in this forum.Throughout all these years I learned and started to admire this family DPCD engines.My IND 251 Chrysler timing chain cover does not have the pointer and when I have to put the #1 cylinder in TDC I put a little tool over the #6 cylinder hole.When this tool begins to rise means that the intake valve begins to open and #6 cylinder is in the end of the exhaust.In this same moment #1 cylinder is on TDC firing stroke.For me the paper or cork process is difficult to believe perhaps due to the pressure of my engine.

Is that a tire dept gauge?   Sure looks like it.   Clever adaptation of use if it is!

[kencombs]

Bing, do you have a wiring diagram for your car?   I don't have one to reference so I'll have to ask:   What is the actual path from the generator, which serves as ground, to the start circuit?   If it passes through the switch and your switch isn't 'on' or inoperative, you would have no ground for that post on the solenoid.   Please try grounding it with a jumper to remove all doubt.

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[DonaldSmith]

Hmm. So, you have your probe in the spark plug hole, over the intake valve, rather than in the plug hole over the piston.  It took me a minute to figure it out.  

Whatever works. 

[Fernando Mendes]

5 hours ago, DonaldSmith said:

Hmm. So, you have your probe in the spark plug hole, over the intake valve, rather than in the plug hole over the piston.  It took me a minute to figure it out.  

Whatever works. 

Plug hole over the intake valve.

[Fernando Mendes]

3 hours ago, kencombs said:

Is that a tire dept gauge?   Sure looks like it.   Clever adaptation of use if it is!

Yes.

[Bingster]

Sorry I' late in answering your question. I do have a wiring diagram.Yes, generator tests grounded okay.  Wire from generator ground to solenoid upper left small terminal tests ground okay.  Large battery terminal tests okay for hot wire from battery.

The only wild card in this set-up seems to be the upper right small terminal which when a hot negative wire is  attached makes a faint sound but that's it. Maybe the terminals inside are corroded.  The reason that I tried a hot negative wire is that electricity from the instrument panel starter switch to that upper right terminal post is supposed to jump across and touch the ground terminal. That supposedly actives the relay to close the points. Right?