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Date:   Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:41:33 -0500
Reply-To:   Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:   Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:   Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:   Re: Hydraulic valve adjustment question
Comments:   To: Andrew Philbrick <herrschildkrote@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:   <48A35180.7050707@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Andrew Philbrick <herrschildkrote@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey Jim, > > When I reset the valves on my Air Cooled Vanagon motor, I set them to 1.5 > turns past contact to preload them - as to Richard Atwell's suggestion. > From what I found, every person has their own doctrine and there is no > serious harm if you do not have it set at exactly 2 turns (or 1.5 or 1....). > I have driven that motor about 500 miles (from the fresh rebuild) and > haven't had a problem with valve timing.

Right, I've done 2, 1, doesn't seem to matter. I think 1.5 seems "reasonable."

Mine's not aircooled. Bentley doesn't say anything about rotating backwards so I assume the mean clockwise...if I were turning counterclockwise, it would make sense to do it in reverse order. But going clockwise, that should be the firing order which is 1-4-3-2, right?

Thanks,

Jim > > As for the valve timing order, i believe it is in reverse order of firing > starting with 1 (i.e 1-2-3-4). make sure you are turning the motor the > correct way (counter clockwise on an air cooled) because she'll run funny if > you set the #2 cylinder valves on the #4 firing location. > > andrew > > Jim Felder wrote: >> >> Bentley says set valves on number 1 cylinder, then rotate 180 and do >> the next cylinder. Somebody let me know if the rest of the sequence is >> anything but the firing order. >> >> Bentley says two turns of the adjusting screw to preload the lifter. >> Seems I've read (and used) one turn as espoused by some on The List. >> >> What's recommended? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jim >> >> > >


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