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On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 18:56, Steven Ayres wrote: > I'd love to have a cleaner way to do this, but my method of choice is to use > a medium-sized pry bar with a spade end; down through the generator cover, > place the spade in the teeth of the pulley and pull to the right, against > the inside seam of the shroud, which puts some stress on the tin and bolts, > but has so far not caused any distortion I've discovered. This turns the > engine backward (about four pulls per half-rotation), and I check the valves > sequentially (1,2,3,4). Is that weird or what? > Put the tranny in 4th gear, then turn the engine over by turning both rear wheels at the same time. Use a test light hooked to the coil, to tell when you are on TDC for valve adjustments. If it is automatic, that is a different story. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/