Another "close enough" way of determining TDC for #1 cylinder is to look at the keyway at the end of the crank. You need to remove the pulley bolt first to see it. When #1 is at TDC, the keyway points precisely to the left, perfectly horizontal.
Jan
tricky wrote:
Heh. When you have broken as many engines as I / We have, you are bound to know what's not "good enough" or "great idea"... LOL Most of what I know is due to breaking something when we pushed it too far beyond it's intended stress range in one way or another :)
Sure, there have also been plain acts of stupidity too but I'll keep those to myself ;)
Jan
Sounds kinky. :-) Thanks for the offer, but I decided to go ahead and actually stop for the day. We're going over to a "NASCAR party" in a little bit. Just took a shower and filled a cooler up with beer on ice. My wife would kill me if I started taking apart engine parts right now. :-) Air conditioner is not working enough to bother running it. Called the repair dude and they're only open Monday-Friday so I grabbed the shop fan and brought it inside and have it blasting on me right now. I think if I sip a few ice cold beers then the combination of that and the fan may be enough to keep me cool. I'll let you know. :-D
Well .. when I first got into VW's I broke a couple of engines.
I have a type 4 with a BIG rattle, and a type 1 with a little rattle that is getting bigger !
As my collection of Vdubs grows I have just swapped 'bad' engines with 'OK' ones !
soon I will rebiuldd my 1st, and hopefully learn alot.
Till then I can just offer what I have learned so far :-)
Rich
Jan Anderss> tricky wrote:
On Sat, 14 May 2005 18:09:56 GMT, Shag scribbled this interesting note:
You know how we all hate it when you lose your cool!:~)
-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)
Expect to see a full report with photos on my desk first thing in the morning. DiiiisMISSSed! :)
Jan
Shag wrote:
Oh yeah .. I realy dont mind being put right if I say something STUPID !
Rich
tricky wrote:
Rich, you are correct in your statement above...but(yeah there's always one) shaggie wasn't trying to get "close enough", he was looking to test the accuracy of his pulley degree markings....and a degree or two can cost you an engine believe it or not....
hell yeah....i wouldn't admit some things i have done if i didn't think it would help others *not* make those mistakes....i didn't have RAMVA or anything of the sort, so i broke alot of stuff and madea few mistakes, based on the good info the magazines put out back in the late 80's...
Ahh, magazines.. the holy books of infinite wisdom :)
Jan
but Jan, the *did* teach me alot back then..unfortunately they can be very expensive lessons...heh...
On Sat, 14 May 2005 16:19:47 -0400, "Joey Tribiani" scribbled this interesting note:
Those tend to be the ones learned best and forgotten last...
-- John Willis (Remove the Primes before e-mailing me)
LOL important and effective lesson nonetheless ;)
Jan
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