On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Andrew Philbrick
<herrschildkrote@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Right, I've done 2, 1, doesn't seem to matter. I think 1.5 seems "reasonable."

Mine's not aircooled. Bentley doesn't say anything about rotating
backwards so I assume the mean clockwise...if I were turning
counterclockwise, it would make sense to do it in reverse order. But
going clockwise, that should be the firing order which is 1-4-3-2,
right?

Thanks,

Jim
>
> 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
>>
>>
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