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Subject:Re: Watercooled Mexican Microbusses (long)
From:mark drillock
Date:Fri, 7 Jan 2005 16:25:55 -0800

I have a couple KEP adapters myself. Gasoline timing marks?  I thought
you were putting a TD into your loaf?  In any case if all you need is a
TDC mark on a pulley surely anyone putting a watercooled inline engine
into a loaf has bigger challenges ahead than that.

Mark

>KEP adapters are $600 +/- (2003 price sheet)
>The KEP flywheel is not a replacement part.. you ruin it you need to
>get another one from KEP.
>also the KEP adapter ( I own one) is a PITA to time the engine.. there
>is NO timing mark pulley for a gas I4, KEP times thru a small peep hole
>into the back of the flywheel. factory VW would have some other set up.
>
>
>What I need to make is a pulley for an I4 I can use a timing light on.
>
>I'm quite sure factory VW wouldn't use a specialty starter.. then again
>they do for the Diesel vanagon (again own one of those too)
>
>

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