This is from a table I found in a French collector car magazine which gave
abbreviations forvalve and flywheel marks and timing in three languages.
I've added thetext to make this a complete linguistic experience. For now
it's just English, German and French. It least now you'll know why a BMW
has OT marked on the flywheel. It's just TDC in the language of Goethe.
English
1. TDC Top Dead Center
2. BDC Bottom Dead Center
3. IO Intake opens
4. IC Intake closes
5. EO Exhaust opens
6. EC Exhaust closes
German
1. OT oberer Totpunkt
2. UT unterer Totpunkt
3. EO Einlass oefnet
4. ES Einlass schliesst
5. AO Auslass oefnet
6. AS Auslass schliesst
French
1. PMH Point Mort Haut
2. PMB Point Mort Bas
3. OA Ouverture admission
4. FA Fermature admission
5. OE Ouverture chappement
6. FE Fermature chappement
Happy tappets to all,
abbreviations forvalve and flywheel marks and timing in three languages.
I've added thetext to make this a complete linguistic experience. For now
it's just English, German and French. It least now you'll know why a BMW
has OT marked on the flywheel. It's just TDC in the language of Goethe.
English
1. TDC Top Dead Center
2. BDC Bottom Dead Center
3. IO Intake opens
4. IC Intake closes
5. EO Exhaust opens
6. EC Exhaust closes
German
1. OT oberer Totpunkt
2. UT unterer Totpunkt
3. EO Einlass oefnet
4. ES Einlass schliesst
5. AO Auslass oefnet
6. AS Auslass schliesst
French
1. PMH Point Mort Haut
2. PMB Point Mort Bas
3. OA Ouverture admission
4. FA Fermature admission
5. OE Ouverture chappement
6. FE Fermature chappement
Happy tappets to all,
