Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 16:39:54 -0500
Reply-To: The Southards <southard@GIS.NET>
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From: The Southards <southard@GIS.NET>
Subject: FW: 1.6L NA d- finding TDC & injection pump q
Bradley:
I think your best bet is to attach the bell housing from the diesel Vanagon
before removing the timing belt. There is a pointer inside the little
"timing inspection" hole just to the right of the starter. Aligh this
pointer with the notch mark on the flywheel. This is TDC for either
cylinder 1 or 3. You must look at the valves to determine which cylinder
is at TDC (both cam lobes should be "up".)
As for the injection pump levers, I don't know. I have never messed with
mine. I will forward your post to the diesel list at diesel@audifans.com.
Maybe Martin Jagersand or Paul Cianciolo are listening in. I think they
have dealt with the lever before. I'm interested to know also, as I will
be transplanting the Jetta TD engine into Reinhardt in the future and would
like to move the Jetta pump along with the engine. Any tips out there?
Maynard OvO '79
'82 Westy Diesel "Reinhardt"
'93 EV GL "Klinger"
'00 Golf GLS TDI "WooHoo"
'84 Jetta GL TD
-----Original Message-----
From: Bradley Flubacher <flubach@HOME.COM>
Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 1:50 PM
To: Recipients of vanagon digests
Subject: 1.6L NA d- finding TDC & injection pump q
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 13:47:10 -0500
From: Bradley Flubacher <flubach@HOME.COM>
Subject: 1.6L NA d- finding TDC & injection pump q
I have a "new" engine (1.6L) to go into my '82 diesel westy. It is from a
quantum and it ran great. Right now it is in my garage on wooden cribbing.
It has the flywheel on it, but nothing past that (-no clutch assembly or
bellhousing).
I am familiar with setting the engine to TDC when it's in the vehicle.
That's easy enough, but I'm wondering if there is a way to set this
engine's
crank shaft to TDC (for installation of a new drive belt) without taking
off
the head and looking at the pistons.
Is there a marking on the end of the crankshaft that I will see if I take
off the flywheel? Right now, I see no discernable markings anywhere. I
haven't taken off the old drive belt yet. I'm faced with removing the
flywheel to properly mount this engine in my stand- something I've never
done before.. Alas, I still have some work to do to it before it can go
into the van. A new drive belt, oil pickup, windage tray and oil pan..
I don't want to remove the head if I don't have to. I'd prefer leaving
that
undisturbed.. Unless it is recommended to me by this fine mailing list to
do otherwise.
Bentley says to use new bolts and locking compound on the flywheel.
I intend to do this- I hope it's not tough to find those bolts.
Onto my injection pump "question"- The pump in my van has a decent angle
on
the throttle lever, whereas the throttle lever on the replacement engine is
pretty much flat (of course). I removed the throttle lever assemblies from
both pumps in an attempt to swap them. I found that the one from the old
engine wouldn't fit onto the new engine. The flange at the base of the
throttle stem was wider on the new engine so the throttle lever assembly
wouldn't fit down onto it. The only solution I've thought up, is to use the
old injection pump on the new engine. This isn't something I really want
to
do though. I'd prefer using the original injection system that came on
that
engine- ideally in an undisturbed state..
Any other ideas? I bought a decent gear puller with anticipation of needing
to swap pumps.
Meanwhile, I replaced the throttle lever assemblies onto their original
pumps. This was no fun. Another question- when I put these assemblies
back on, I turned the throttle stem clockwise until it would nealry turn no
more. I then unscrewed the idle position screw almost all the way, and
installed the lever flush with this screw. So the stem is nealry all the
clockwise while the idle screw is almost out. I did this with the
intention
that I would just reset the proper idle position once I had everything
together again. Does this all sound like the correct thing to have done?
In retrospect, I would've never taken it apart. If I had only known the
needed throttle lever assembly wasn't going to fit on the "new" injection
pump. Oh well.
Anyone in the area who wants to take a look at what I fine mess I have here
is more than welcome.
Feel free to private-email me with any responses in addition to mail to the
list.
Thanks in advance,
Bradley Flubacher
State College, PA