On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, David Kao wrote:

> 
> Could be that the pistons were in wrong directions. Pistons all have an
> arrow on top indicating the direction (don't remember front or rear of
> the engine). My mechanic had his newly employed worker installed new
> pistons for my 71 Beetle. He had them reversed.
> 
> The bug suffered poor performance after the rebuild and a strange noise
> like piston slaping noise. I had another mechanic tore the engine and
> verified that the pistons were reversed. The noise went away when the
> mistake was corrected and the bug ran like a champ.

Yeah, no such luck.  I made sure that the little arrows on the piston tops
were all pointing toward the flywheel end of the engine.  Anyone care
to confirm this as correct?

Thanks anyway!

Dave
'71 Westfalia & SB