It is a pretty new dial, have used it only for the pump timing, it's some German made dial with a 10mm range. I have set the timing once with the dial with no problems. Before that I used some kind of Soviet made dial which has seen it's days!
There's no problem with the cold start lever as I've ditched the original system and it's completely manual controlled by a lever from the inside. So the lever is loose all times when it's not pulled from inside the car.
The dial pattern that you are describing makes sense to me as well. That's why I'm really confused with the reading that I get. Lets say that if I pre-load the dial at 10mm and turn the engine back, the needle doesn't stop until 5 or so mm.
Well, I'm going to try it again with the other old dial and then again turning the engine forward only. Turning it forward only I should find the highest reading just before the TDC mark and zero the dial there and then proceed turning it to the TDC.
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