Date:         Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:45:31 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <synergx@IBM.NET>
Subject:      Re: which cylinder is #1 and which is #4?
Comments: To: Paul Henderson <pgh@UNX.DEC.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <9906211757.AA09379@fetch.unx.dec.com>
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At 13:57 6/21/99 -0400, Paul Henderson wrote:
>Apologies for something that should be obvious, but could someone tell
>me which cylinder is #1 and which is #4 on a watercooled 1984 Vanagon?
>
>The ridiculous thing is that the entire Bentley shop manual never
>tells you which cylinder is #1. Nor could I find anything in the
>archives. The closest I came was a statement that it is "punched on
>the tin", but there is no 'tin' on the engine in my Vanagon.


You're supposed to know, apparently.

flywheel end
3              1
2              4
pulley end

Distributor rotor points to about 4 o'clock when #1 is at TDC.
Shall we rant about Bentley a little?  Somebody wrote a while back that he
found everything he ever looked for there, but that has not been my
experience. :)

david

David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net