I will draw some pictures later. If you know the basic concepts perhaps you can help me brainstorm a fix for this issue.

I have a timing probe (snapon mt480) for GM / Ford 7.3 liter IDI diesels. It uses Hall effect on the harmonic balancer and detects a groove in the balancer.

I want to use this on a Benz, which has a protruding dowel on the crank pulley.

I tried hooking up a stock MB crank sensor to the harness of the Gauge I want to use, but it did not like the signal.


Thoughts?


......Other than removing the dowel and grinding a groove in the pulley.