.........as long as no one has put the distributor in indexed incorrectly.
There's a faint mark on the upper edge of the distributor body, where the
cap sits, that indicates # 1 cylinder position.
  It's possible to put the distributor in incorrectly so # 1 is somewhere
else. Not too likely on a waterboxer as there is seldom a reason to take the
distributor out. 

Also a handy little trick to keep in mind is, going backwards ( distributor
turns clockwise , so going backwards is counterclockwise ) the 'reverse
firing order' is 1 - 2 - 3  - 4 

Makes it a snap to eyeball it quickly.
Scott
www.turbovans.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Mike Collum
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 1:56 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Spark plug wires

When you're standing aft of the engine looking at the distributor ...
the upper left wire goes to the upper left spark plug (#3).  The lower
left wire goes to the lower left spark plug (#4).  The upper right wire
goes to the lower right plug (#2) and the lower right wire goes to the
upper right plug (#1).  Yes ... the wires cross only on the right side.

Mike

BJ Feddish wrote:
> OK, I think I did a shell game with my spark plug wires to the
distributer.
> Can someone tell me where each wire goes? Not the firing order but where
> each one goes in relation to the cap. I may have mine all shifted in one
> direction.
>
> Thanks,
> Bryan
>

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