That's on a fairly long list of upgrades that I want to do, including
stripping out the Riviera interior and putting in a stock Westy.

Nathaniel

On 11/18/06 4:40 PM, "Courtney Hook" <courtneyhook@shaw.ca> wrote:

> Nice to hear Nathaniel!! Sounds like you've got it beat. The only other
> thing I might suggest somewhere down the road is to pick up one of the
> electronic ignitions such as Petronix or the even cheaper Accufire for year
> round easy starting. No more condenser, points, or hassles. I switched mine
> over and it starts WAY better in the cold humid foggy days up here on
> Vancouver Island.
> Take care,
> courtney
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nathaniel Poole" <npoole@TELUS.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 4:26 PM
> Subject: Re: <no subject>
>
>
>> After crying in my beer I went back and like you said, started from
>> scratch,
>> and eventually got the engine running. Whooopie!! I don't know why there
>> was
>> little compression in number 1, and why it was sucking through the exhaust
>> on intake, but everything seemed to clear itself out by trying over and
>> again to get it started. The one thing that was out of whack was that the
>> PO
>> had marked TDC on the fan pulley 180 degrees out, and I used that for
>> setting up initial timing. It was only after carefully watching the
>> rockers
>> and valves as my son rotated the engine through it's cycles that I
>> realised
>> the error. When I found the little (unpainted) nick for TDC, I found I had
>> set it up at 9 degrees after TDC. Using an ohmmeter on the points, I set
>> it
>> up for 7 degrees BTDC. A little cranking later and it roared to life (by
>> then it was also flooded) a few farts and lots of smoke and it settled
>> down
>> to a sweet-running engine, much smoother than before the rebuild; you
>> really
>> couldn't tell the engine was running by looking at it. Been driving the
>> van
>> all day and it starts with the barest touch of the starter. It's great
>> having the rig on the road again.
>