Be sure to drip test it before you go to the trouble of scribing and loosening bolts. My pump was accurate after 33 years of not being timed. It was a new timing chain, though.

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1981 300TD 310k miles
1970 280sel 172k miles
1966 230 Fintail 162k miles

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