Date:         Sat, 4 May 2002 22:02:00 +0200
Reply-To:     Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Steven Fish <fish@SALZBURG.CO.AT>
Subject:      Re: SPARK PLUG WIRE PLACEMENT?
Comments: To: Eric Spletzer <eric@SENIORNET.ORG>
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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

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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.
>