I read through the archives for about a half hour last week... and found the greatest posting, by Ken, that saved my ass. Spark Plug wire order: Start by looking at your distributor cap, and imagining all the wires going to the cooresponding plugs, that is, drivers side upper left, goes to drivers side upper left..... drivers side lower left, goes to drivers side lower left.... passenger side upper right, goes to passenger side upper right, and passenger side lower right goes to passenger side lower right.... Now the important part... the passenger side (right hand side when standing at the rear of the van, looking at the engine) wires get switched. So you have the correct firing order... let the left side point to the cooresponding plugs, and the right gets crossed over. I had the passenger side wrong, before I read Ken's posing, and had really horrible low idle, and my Cat glowed red hot, and I almost burned up my wiring harnesses at the tail lights... is was rather ugly. I hope it did not do any permanent damage. Good luck and praise the list! RSF <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ <º)))>{ Robert S. Fish Salzburg, Austria 1987 Wolfsburg Vanagon 2.1 GL Weekender 1987 Golf Cabriolet 1991 Golf ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eric Spletzer" <eric@SENIORNET.ORG> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 1:01 AM Subject: Re: SPARK PLUG WIRE PLACEMENT?
> I've found that the easiest way to replace plug wires and make sure that you > don't screw anything up is to replace them one at a time, so you can tell > what goes where. > > Alternatively, the cap is set up generally in spatial relation to the > cylinders, so the cap plug that is in the upper left of the cap goes to the > cylinder in the upper left, etc, and the middle wire goes to your ignition > coil. > > But it's oh so much easier to do it with no mistakes if you do one wire at a > time. > > -eric > '85 Vanagon GL Westy > > > On 5/2/02 3:55 PM, "Chris Winesette" <Chriswinesette@AOL.COM> wrote: > > > which spark plug wire goes to which cylinder. > |
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