How to make a degree wheel

[375inStroke]

I printed one out on 11X17 paper after googling degree wheel and limiting to images over 1024 pixels, and glued it onto cardboard. No distortion, no money, and no problem. Finding exact TDC and lining up the wheel is probably the hardest part. There's a dial indicator here, but I actually bolted down a head and used a piston stop made from a spark plug to find TDC and measure the lifter movement.

 

[moe7404]

to 1930. you are right it is cheaper to buy a wheel. and the ones i have seen look to be fine for the job. iam just saying what you CAN do. i enjoy all the ideas my friends post here.

 

[Pompis]

I made my degree wheel by glue a printed degree wheel on a cardboard. But it didn't work so good, I wanted to turn the engine around with the balancer bolt and the cardboard just compressed and twist when you turned it around. So I did a new degree wheel with a aluminum sheet, works better since you can look it in place with the balancer bolt. In the pictures is the setup for my 318. I guess you have to make something else to connect from the cam to the indicator on a slant, something longer. If you have a old lifter you can maybe weld something on the lifter to bridge the gap up to the deck and indicator. I took 2 (hydraulic) lifters and taped the pushrod side to each other. You don't want anything that can compress between the cam and indicator.

Piston stop.

In this picture is the cardboard degree wheel. I had to turn the engine by the flexplate to not offset the cardboard degree wheel.

Link to various degreeing wheels.
https://www.google.se/search?q=degr...YBw&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ&biw=1093&bih=515#imgdii=_

Hope this helps