19-06-2018, 08:19 AM
S o r r y Trevor, I must disagree. My memory on this is very clear, (unlike on some things!)
That V4 in the German Transit definitely ran in reverse as unlikely as it seems. The friend I referred to was ex AA, it confused him no end. I was quite smug at the time and wouldn't tell him why it wouldn't charge at first, he hadn't spotted it.
Once we had reversed the dynamo field, it charged. There was no figure of 8 in the fan belt!
There was certainly a lock nut arrangement on the crank pulley which was a right hand thread.
Outwardly the engine looked normal, as did the rest of the van.
The starter motor would have been off an engine where it was on the other side of the engine, easy to source.
Rather than a special gearbox, they either put the diff in cack handed or had the axle upside down.
I remember putting a diff in a Morris Minor 180 degrees out for a joke one day, Oh how we did laugh!
Left handed Ford engines were not totally uncommon, many Zephyr MkII & MkIII straight 6 motors were made and used as marine engines usually on water jet drives, I worked on lots of them back in the '70s.
Its only a cam shaft change that determines the direction of rotation after all.
I agree that the Saab was as you say.
Sam.
That V4 in the German Transit definitely ran in reverse as unlikely as it seems. The friend I referred to was ex AA, it confused him no end. I was quite smug at the time and wouldn't tell him why it wouldn't charge at first, he hadn't spotted it.
Once we had reversed the dynamo field, it charged. There was no figure of 8 in the fan belt!
There was certainly a lock nut arrangement on the crank pulley which was a right hand thread.
Outwardly the engine looked normal, as did the rest of the van.
The starter motor would have been off an engine where it was on the other side of the engine, easy to source.
Rather than a special gearbox, they either put the diff in cack handed or had the axle upside down.
I remember putting a diff in a Morris Minor 180 degrees out for a joke one day, Oh how we did laugh!
Left handed Ford engines were not totally uncommon, many Zephyr MkII & MkIII straight 6 motors were made and used as marine engines usually on water jet drives, I worked on lots of them back in the '70s.
Its only a cam shaft change that determines the direction of rotation after all.
I agree that the Saab was as you say.
Sam.
Boater Sam.
