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Hi Aaron,
    Follow the bentley bible and keep in mind what you are after is to
finding  the point that the push rod is just starting to get tight and loose
its end play.  If the lifters are not pumped and full of oil,  the force of
the lifters  on the push rod at this point can be slight.  So be sure you
are not compressing the lifter.  The following is from memory and the
bentley is away with my westy for the weekend  so please verify,  then
tighten 2 rounds beyond this point.
    With the timing mark on the pulley at the case split  and the ignition
rotor pointing to the #1 mark adjust #1.  Then turn the crank shaft 180
degrees cw  adjust #4, turn cw and align the mark with split again for #3,
then  turn crank cw 180 degrees and adjust #2.  The first mark on the crank
when turning cw  is 5 degree before tdc the second the tdc mark.  Best of
luck with your quest.
Darrell

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Robinson <arobinso@LINKNET.KITSAP.LIB.WA.US>
To: vanagon@VANAGON.COM <vanagon@VANAGON.COM>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 6:42 PM
Subject: Valve Adjusting

>I just re-torqued my cylinder head bolts to see if it would help my
>overfilling reserve tank, but now need to get ahand figuring out how to
>get my valves re-adjusted properly.
>
>If there is anybody out there that could give me a foolproof (and
>detailed) set of directions, I would greatly appreciate it so that I could
>drive again.
>
>Thanks (and suffering VERY poor compression...)
>Aaron
>