Joel wrote:
>>
>>after #1 is adjusted you just turn the crank pulley backwards so that the
>>rotor goes 90 degrees in the 'wrong' direction, and that's #2. then another
>>90 degrees is #3, and another 90 degrees is #4.
>>

What Joel said (backwrads) means counterclockwise.  The Bentley for 83-84
vanagons has a mistake (at least my Bentley is wrong) about this. It says
to turn the crank pulley 90 degress. More precisely it should be 90 degrees 
counterclockwise. I think this applies to all aircoooled bus/bug engines.
Oh, hydraulic lifters can (need to) be adjusted if they are repacked,
as described in the Bentley manual.

David Kao