Tess, In this case, "normal" would be clockwise, as viewed from the front. Regards, Mark
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Russell Neely Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 12:20 PM To: [email protected]; Tess McMillan Subject: Re: [alfa] Follow on to It's Driving Me Nuts Tess, If you remove the spark plugs, the engine should turn over easily. The crankshaft nut on an L Jetronic spider is 36mm. Look at the fan blade and pretend it is a propeller pulling the car forward. Turn the engine in that direction. That is, looking at the front of the engine, turn it clockwise. I suggest you just remove the spark plugs, dump a bit of oil down each spark plug hole and just spin it with the starter. I suggest penetrating oil or rust removing oil and let it soak for a while. If the piston rings are rusted to the liners, you might be able to tell by turning the engine manually. But I do not think you are going to do any more damage by spinning with the starter. By the way, dig out your shop vac or the hand hose for your house vac and clean the holes around the spark plugs before removing them. A bit of carb or brake cleaner sprayed down there can help. You will have to remove the main air hose across the top of the engine to get number 2 spark plug removed. Ciao, Russ Neely --- On Thu, 9/17/09, Tess McMillan <[email protected]> wrote: From: Tess McMillan <[email protected]> Subject: [alfa] Follow on to It's Driving Me Nuts To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 10:52 AM I removed a little over 3 gallons of old, orange, sweet-smelling gas from the Spider yesterday. Got a new Optima (to signal my serious intentions to the Universe) battery from my German-car mechanic. In talking with one of the guys in the shop, he took a look at me and proffered the suggestion I might not be strong enough to crank the engine manually. He also suggested I use the key to turn the engine over once I'd connected the battery and disconnected the coil/spark/ignition. I did not see the end to that discussion -- why Michael preferred manual cranking for a dry engine, as opposed to using the starter. In any case, I have no idea what the "normal" direction of movement would be, although I can probably find the crank nut now that I've been shown one on some Audis. Tess in Bellevue, WA USA -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected] ----------------------------------------------------------- This message contains confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately thereafter. Thank you. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifies and with authority, states them to be the views of DENTSPLY INTERNATIONAL INC.. -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
