Dan and I are going out again tonight to try to figure this out. I know Rob, that you understand what you're getting on about, but it's agonizingly painful to try to read into your instructions when you leave so many things out (you seem to assume I know what you know, which if that were true, I wouldn't be asking), and fail to answer the (mostly) simple questions I'm asking. I'm not saying I'm not infinitely grateful for the help you've given, I just feel this whole process would go much faster, and would involve much less of your time and effort if you'd take another second or two to actually answer the questions I've posed. It's nice to get advice, but a lot of the time I have a problem, post the problem, and then ask questions about it. I'm trying to gain the information it will take to solve the problem. The advice is good, but if it doesn't work, we're at square one again, where-as if you'd answered the questions too I'd have 30 or 40 other things I could try in a night before coming back with more information. If there is a website where my questions are answered, by all means just point me the way.
If you feel it a waste of time to flesh out your explanations, think of it this way: if you can get me up to speed to the point where I understand what's going on, with my Nissan at least, I can help your work load on the forums quite a bit by answering other people's questions. I'm the helping type. I will do it, I could teach others too. I see how much time and effort you put into this alone. This may be a way to help ease that. This is what forums are for, after all.
I understand how the trigger system works with a missing tooth wheel. How does it work with a wheel like mine?
How does it decide which of the 24 holes to use for TDC when it can't possibly distinguish between them?
What does 'Trigger Tooth' mean in my context?
What does 'Next Trigger Tooth' mean in my context?
Does it make any sense to change the 'Next Trigger Tooth' value to something other than 6? (I've tried and got interesting, possibly helpful results, but I don't know if they are red herrings or not.)
The last instructions you gave were to try flipping the disk, which we plan on doing first. You also mentioned we may
need to start looking at the next cylinder in the sequence - set trigger tooth to 2 and start timing the TDC value.
My firing order is 1-3-4-2, so you want me to put the timing light on cylinder 3, change the 'Trigger Tooth' value to 2, and try again to time to TDC? This was my parsing of your directions. Dan seems to think you can't possibly mean what I think you mean.
We'll have more information when we get back from working on the car, but our hopes aren't high.