Um, my good friend Mr. Haynes told me what Mr. Bentley would not.

        Flywheel
3                       1
4                       2
        Pulleys

Who is right?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Beierl [SMTP:synergx@IBM.NET]
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 2:46 PM
> To:   vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject:      Re: which cylinder is #1 and which is #4?
>
> At 13:57 6/21/99 -0400, Paul Henderson wrote:
> >Apologies for something that should be obvious, but could someone tell
> >me which cylinder is #1 and which is #4 on a watercooled 1984 Vanagon?
> >
> >The ridiculous thing is that the entire Bentley shop manual never
> >tells you which cylinder is #1. Nor could I find anything in the
> >archives. The closest I came was a statement that it is "punched on
> >the tin", but there is no 'tin' on the engine in my Vanagon.
>
>
> You're supposed to know, apparently.
>
> flywheel end
> 3              1
> 2              4
> pulley end
>
> Distributor rotor points to about 4 o'clock when #1 is at TDC.
> Shall we rant about Bentley a little?  Somebody wrote a while back that he
> found everything he ever looked for there, but that has not been my
> experience. :)
>
> david
>
> David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net