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Subject:Re: which cylinder is #1 and which is #4?
From:David Beierl
Date:Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:38:32 -0400

That's what I meant.  Honest.  My fat head betrayed me!  Sorry for the
confusion.

3 1
4 2

<blush>
david

At 15:10 6/21/99 -0700, Brad Anderson wrote:
>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

David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net