TDC Tool
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Nope. See the September OVR - just a week away
I second the "nope". I'd bet it wouldn't get you closer than 10 or 20 degrees. The object seems to be to get it close enough that you can see the timing marks on the V8 harmonic balancer. My bike just doesn't seem to have one.
I use a piston stop but like the idea of the soap bubble method. Never tried it though.
Gary
I use a piston stop but like the idea of the soap bubble method. Never tried it though.
Gary
If approximately is all you need, a discarded popsicle stick will do!
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Before I got piston stops, I had a spoke with a mark on it, that my father made. Worked very well on the side of the road. When I got home and checked with a degree wheel and buzz box, it was spot on.
I had something very similar, came with my crypton tuner. Its function is to establish that you about to carry out the leakdown test on the correct cylinder. A magic tool especially if ,as I often was, working on a twelve cylinder motor.
I am a piston stop man best bit was when I found that when the timing cover is off a petrol tap will screw in the filter housing and a bent spoke and nipple will hold in a petrol tap olive nut I had a picture in 2011 in a thread https://www.vincentownersclub.co.uk/threads/now-whats-that-for.3668/ but somehow the picture has gone from the archives 
I have had to use a small screwdriver when doing a roadside ATD replacement.It worked well enough to get home,and on checking turned out to be only a few degrees out.I think it was as accurate as the item described would have been.
If it is only nearly right it is wrong!
small can be a disaster if it slips down the plug hole!