Tim, I see by the number of posts you are new to writing here. Welcome fellow diesel breather. Have you ever timed a diesel before? They are quite the different animal compared to the electric gas engines that use a timing light to get it right.Diesels time by measurement. So look at the sticky links here if you need to know the basics. Then you need to gather up more than just that dial gauge you put in the back of the pump. And for nearly a year I didn't have one and still managed to rebuild the IP and had good miles per gallon out of the engine. Once I got the gauge things went better then bad then real bad. Another story there.So alignment is the key and that is done with marks on the top of the injection pump, the Top Dead Center mark on the flywheel and the keeper for the cam lock in the back of the block. Setting the lock in the injection pump should show you a mark on the pulley that lines up with a mark on the bracket that holds the pump. They are small and can be hard to see unless all is cleaned and once you find them paint them white or red or orange to see them forever more.Getting the timing to set correctly is a bit of a trick because the part of the system that needs to be able to turn freely when you tighten the timing belt tension adjuster is the cam pulley. You need to have that freed before you start trying to tighten the belt but after you have the IP and Cam locked. Hints all over this site how to get it lose with out breaking it apart. Get a Bentley manual and study it, Check the local library for a copy or some of the other repair manuals for this type of engine. I had good luck doing that but decided if I was going to turn wrenches on my car I best have the proper guide at hand. Can't drive to the library with a broken car now can you?Good luck on the basic timing and remember pull the pump towards the front of the car to retard the timing and push it at the engine to increase the timing. Just don't forget to loosen the nuts on the back of the pump on the injection lines or you will have trouble doing either the push or pull and you will run the risk of breaking the lines delivering fuel to the injectors. Tighten after the pump is tight. Then roll the engine over by hand a few times and see if it hangs up on a valve or spins free as a bird.Later DAS
...BTW your Bieber avatar is awesome.-Malone
Dial indicators are available many places. I think the FAQ may even have a thread on getting quality ones inexpensively. The diesel pulse adapter has a small piezo pickup that clamps to the injector line and senses the actual pulse of the diesel fuel in the injector line. The adapter then transforms that signal into a typical gasser spark plug wire pulse so you can use a gasser inductive strobe timing light and read off the flywheel. It is much faster and far more accurate than a dial indicator because it reads the actual start of injection which takes into account variations in pump wear and injector opening pressure. You can also see if the dynamic advance is working. The downside is the expense. My timing light has rpm and advance also, so I can use the pulse adapter to calibrate diesel tachometers and the advance function which is very useful as well.