18-06-2018, 09:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 18-06-2018, 09:53 PM by Murphyv310.)
Hi.
I see you have deleted your post Sam. I have to say there are some that have been fed rather a lot of misinformation about the British and German Ford V4 engines. Both rotate clockwise looking at the front of the engine. My brother had a Corsair V4 and my Dad swapped his Moskvitch for a Zephyr MK4 V6 that is basically a V4 with two extra cylinders. All of these run clockwise.
Can you actually imagine a penny pinching company like Ford having to redesign the gearbox to accept a reversed direction engine? The cut of the gears would need to be redone and Ford tended to use one box across the range.
Where most folk got mixed up was identifying the balance shaft as the crankshaft which quite obviously ran anticlockwise.
So it makes not a bit of sense to make an engine to run anticlockwise when all others don't.
Oh and on the V4 the generator and water pump was driven via the balance shaft, as I've already pointed out in a previous post.
I see you have deleted your post Sam. I have to say there are some that have been fed rather a lot of misinformation about the British and German Ford V4 engines. Both rotate clockwise looking at the front of the engine. My brother had a Corsair V4 and my Dad swapped his Moskvitch for a Zephyr MK4 V6 that is basically a V4 with two extra cylinders. All of these run clockwise.
Can you actually imagine a penny pinching company like Ford having to redesign the gearbox to accept a reversed direction engine? The cut of the gears would need to be redone and Ford tended to use one box across the range.
Where most folk got mixed up was identifying the balance shaft as the crankshaft which quite obviously ran anticlockwise.
So it makes not a bit of sense to make an engine to run anticlockwise when all others don't.
Oh and on the V4 the generator and water pump was driven via the balance shaft, as I've already pointed out in a previous post.
