Farmall H Mag Drive Timing

[Stanton]

In the course of refurbishing, the original magneto drive gear was removed and cleaned. The exposed gear has a double "II" mark on it, but I cannot find a corresponding mark of any kind on the idler gear. I read in the I&T repair manual that the magneto drive to idler gear "need not be timed to the engine."

Are any of you familiar with this issue?

If I put #1 cylinder at TDC and set the mag tower to #1, wouldn't that work?

Thanks.

[Eugene]

Yes. Fine tune the rotor location. Magneto fires when points just open. Static time the magneto. Then double check the rotor location, You might have to adjust the rotor location by a tooth or two.