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Jim Adney wrote: > I can't imagine trying to turn over an engine from the dist drive gear. > The gear ratio is working against you, and I doubt if those gears are > strong enough for those kinds of stresses; it certainly wouldn't work > on a VW. Just look at the mechanical advantage that a starter > motor gets (drive pinion to flywheel ring gear.) > Opps, I didn't explain this well enough. It just turns the oil pump. The cam drives the distributor which drives the oil pump. You take a junk distributor, strip off the gear that the cam drives and then it will just turn the oil pump. The tool you buy is just a rod with a slot and sleeve to keep it from falling off the pump shaft. which you turn with the drill | | | Tool | | | | | | | pump shaft with slot |===| Pump I don't know if my ASCII art skills are any good but I hope that gets the idea across. The goal is to turn the oil pump to pre-lube the engine before starting it for the first time. -- Richard Green Lost in Texas with Bluebonnets and Blue Bell Ice Cream ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org