Hey Jim,

When I reset the valves on my Air Cooled Vanagon motor, I set them to
1.5 turns past contact to preload them - as to Richard Atwell's
suggestion.  From what I found, every person has their own doctrine and
there is no serious harm if you do not have it set at exactly 2 turns
(or 1.5 or 1....).  I have driven that motor about 500 miles (from the
fresh rebuild) and haven't had a problem with valve timing.

As for the valve timing order, i believe it is in reverse order of
firing starting with 1 (i.e 1-2-3-4).  make sure you are turning the
motor the correct way (counter clockwise on an air cooled) because
she'll run funny if you set the #2 cylinder valves on the #4 firing
location.

andrew

Jim Felder wrote:
> Bentley says set valves on number 1 cylinder, then rotate 180 and do
> the next cylinder. Somebody let me know if the rest of the sequence is
> anything but the firing order.
>
> Bentley says two turns of the adjusting screw to preload the lifter.
> Seems I've read (and used) one turn as espoused by some on The List.
>
> What's recommended?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>
>