VW Valve Adjustment

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1. @fiatnutz SNAP-ON = great make. They got in to trouble in
   the UK years ago for sticking an advert up that said,
   "SNAP-ON, I bet you wish you had a rigid tool" featuring
   pictures of spanners. People without a sense of humour got
   it banned.
2. LOL why use an adjustable end wrench on the pulley nut??
   LOOKS LIKE A HACK JOB TO ME
3. @citydriver You can get that tool by hazet, came in some of
   the vw spare wheel tool kits.
4. Woah, that is not the way to adjust your valves! I can't
   believe he did it that way, poor engine.
5. I perfer the 1234 counter colokwise method, but I love your
   valve adjusting ratchet, thats very cool. Dennis
6. what the hell is going on here, I thought, the way to adjust
   your valves was to find TDC and adjust the #1 cylinder
   valves fist (which is on the passenger side towards the
   front of the vehicle) and adujust to .004 (stock) (or .006
   depending on who you ask) then turn the crank 180 degrees to
   the left (backwards) and do #2, then 180 degrees backwards
   to do #3, then another 180 degrees backwards to do #4, what
   is this guy talking about??
7. Nice explanation and good visuals.
8. AARRGGHHH The number one cylinder is on the passenger side
   (front of motor, as the front of the motor is the flywheel
   side) closest to firewall!!
9. cylinders are 3-1 4-2 Pulley To adjust vales
   RIGHT, take off the dist cap and rotate the engine until the
   rotor lines up with the line in the body, and the TDC mark
   on the pulley lines up with the case split. This is TDC
   cyl1. Adjust lash to SIX THOUSANDTHS. Rotate the motor
   BACKWARDS 180 until the BDC pulley mark lines up, this is
   cyl2! Another 180 back, and its on 3! One more 180, and its
   4. The firing order is 1-4-3-2, backwards this is 1-2-3-4!
10. Folks, the setting for every damn VW Air Cooled Engine is
    .006". You'll read this and that and that and this, but the
    setting is .006". And set your valves after the engine has
    sat overnight and is stone cold. After you tighten the
    nuts, check the clearance again to make sure it hasn't
    changed. The Haynes manual actually has a pretty good
    procedure. DON'T buy and use a Chilton's manual because
    they are incomplete in most cases.
11. @fdzwes Actually, this procedure is wrong.
12. it could work if the valves he is adjusting is on the low
    side of the cam and not starting to open or close. To me
    to easy to confuse what valve to adjust. I did it the VW
    book way and took me all of 15 min to do it. One way to find
    out is do it his way then check it the book way!!
13. ordem errada vai foder com o bx
14. This video is just crazy: wrong cylinder numbers,
    arbitrarily adjusting valves to the wrong value - what do
    you know, John, that VW didn't? A recipe for burnt valves.
    If your a newbie to VWs, DON'T follow this vid - you'll
    trash your engine. The VDub world's full of bad,
    ill-understood advice, and this takes first prize.
15. This is wrong. He is not adjusting number 3 on compression.
    He went from 4 to three. They are NOT both on compression.
    Please. Nobody should do it this way. If he rocked the
    crankshaft you would see number three valves moving and 4
    (on compression) stationary. Its really common sense if you
    think about it. Everything else was correct though. Almost
    a perfect demonstration.
16. He's is doing this correctly.
17. One at a time is not at all necessary.
18. These instructions are correct. Not textbook but who cares.
    All that is necessary for a correct valve adjustment is
    that the valve have no tention on it at the time. One at a
    time is not at all necessary.
19. whats this guy up to..
20. Very well intentioned but so very wrong. Take off your
    valve covers and dizzy cap. Look at valves when each
    cylinder is TDC and ready to fire. Both valves are closed
    at this time. Use you feeler gauge. Adjust and move on to
    another. Please remove this video. Someone is going to
    ruin their pride and joy.
21. ive been doing mine this way for years i got this from a man
    that worked for vw back in the 70s 0.004 makes the engine
    run smother
22. Wow, that is the #3 cylinder he is starting out on, which is
    wrong. Needs to be on the exact opposite cylinder, which
    would be #1, that's IF he is at TDC for #1. The service
    manuals say to ensure distributor rotor is pointing at the
    #1 at TDC. If not, you have to crank it another 360 to get
    rotor pointing at #1. Then you crank the pulley 180 degrees
    (1/2 turn) clockwise, and do the next in order which is #4
    (front left), 180 again, then #3 (back left), 180 again,
    then #2 (front right).
23. How does this video have such a high rating with so much bad
    information in it? Don't follow these instructions. As
    many others have pointed out, they are wrong!
24. i agree move this f en video we all need to learn somthing
    once the right
25. @jfomby25 Lol, no. Cylinder #1 will not be on it's
    compression stroke in one 360degree turn. You made yourself
    look very dumb with that comment.