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