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Re: [T3] Running on 1 cylinder?


On 14 Jan 2002, at 21:26, phil cain wrote:

>  let us start from scrach.  firing order is 4123 clockwise on the dist.
> looking into the engine compartment 

It's true that the firing order only starts with #1 by convention, but you can 
certainly start anywhere, including with #4, but the order above is backwards. 
Stated conventionally it is 1432, but 4321, 3214, and 2143 are equally 
correct. 4123 is not.

Everything else below is accurate.

> #1 top right just below it is #2, top left is #3 under it is #4.To drop the
> dist drive shaft the timing pulley must be at TDC the #1 valves(I&E) must be
> closed and on #2 cyl the exhaust valve must be open(depressed)and if you
> check #1 piston will be at the top of the compression stroke when all this is
> right install the dist drive shaft as it calls for in the bentley book, with
> this done the dist will fit properly into the space for it and the plug wires
> can be installed right on the dist cap, this should make the world right, 

-
Jim Adney
jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, WI 53711-3054
USA

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