Heres my new timing chain & gear setup for my A-15 motor, the odd thing about this is there's only one off colored link on the chain to line up the gear indents with (I dotted the indents w/white paint), its for the cam gear so I followed procedure for lining up the key ways of the crank & the cam dowel as per the FSM for an A-12:

New Gears & chain aligned as per FSM, the #1 piston is in the bottom of the cyl. position



datsun 1200 FSM image of alignment



comment adjacent to the FSM picture



Haynes 79 - 82 210 manuals only pic of gear indent placement



Gears w/indents aligned as per Haynes manual - piston is at TDC when set up like this



and finally my spiffy polished cover



I believe I've got this setup right but would rather change it now instead of later if its wrong. I used the old gear set as a template to align the gears on the new set that was missing the off colored link for the crank gear. As you can see in the image w/the straight edge its aligned as per the FSM, Haynes says with the indents facing each other & #1 cyl. @ TDC its all good.

Your thoughts...........

PS - does it seem like its more of a pain in the a** to load images these days onto the site?

thx.
Evan