Y'all will have to pardon my rant from last night. I was pretty frustrated that I could not see any numbers stamped on the flywheel. Although cold today, I pulled the starter back off from the other side of the engine to look in there through a bigger hole to see if somehow more light would show up the numbers I could not find yesterday. What I discovered made me feel pretty stupid. My book shows the hash marks and numbers on the face of the flywheel facing toward the front of the tractor. Like I said, the hash marks are there, but no numbers. To my surprise (and pleasure) there are also hash marks and the elusive numbers I been trying to find stamped on the outside surface facing to the side away from the tractor around the face plate of the flywheel gear. I could see them plain as day from the hole where the starter goes and marked the flywheel with a marker and turned the engine to 23o BTDC as it is supposed to be. However, I still have to get the pump drive gear shaft out and turn it 180o to time the fuel pump correctly. I hope it also proves to be my lack of experience that makes that sucker pop out and rotate easier than it seemed to want to move last night. I have been volunteered to do grandson watching today, so I had to quit early, but plan to get this fuel pump on and timed correctly before the weekend is over. After that, it should be simple bolt on's to finish this out.
