...I've had my joke and I kind of expected reactions like this. It was good giggle but there's another bit of kit that I'm hunting down to go with this bit of sheet for gassers (that admittedly will be also used on my W201) =>
Gunson | 77089 | Diesel Adaptor For Timing Lights
Now at 200 quid I'll not be buying but there are other manufacturers of similar stuff that I might be able to find at a lower price. I might even have a go at making my own - 200 quid in the parts used in that thing goes a long way...
...anyway this is still a bit of a pipe dream. It has been discussed before here =>
Timing with diesel pulse adapter and Strobe light
The problem that has always been "about" though is that whilst you've got the gasser timing light and the bloody expensive clamp and a box containing perhaps three electronic components to connect to the timing light you don't know the settings that you are meant to use.
BUT you do NOW!
(Forum user) Govert nudged me in the right direction to the non turbo section in the German language W123 FSM.
Here's the data for the begin of delivery
So for a non turbo OM617 you'd be arsing about with a drip test setting up the begin of delivery at 24 degrees BEFORE TDC
(
PeachPartsWiki: How to Set IP Timing via the Drip Tube Method)
Now begin of delivery is different from actual delivery - point of release - which is what you measure from the clamp that goes on #1 injector line which sends an electric pulse to the box of tricks which then makes the light in the strobe flash.
The settings for this are given here =>
So actual delivery for a non turbo OM617 happens at 19 degrees at 1000 rpm (and 70 degrees C oil temp)
Cool eh?
Data for the OM617a doesn't exist in the German FSM 'cos even there they are arsing about with the little nick in the spinning part of the IP that gives the "false" AFTER TDC data given for the RIV testing / A-B "timing lights" method.