ok. If you are facing the ehxaust side of a d16y8, what are the numbers of the cylinders? does it go 1234, or 4321?

 

from the front of the car looking at the motor

4-3-2-1

Sitting in the driver's seat

1-2-3-4

Make sense?

 

what did you screw up?

 

i adjusted the valve lashes on my car bc of a tapping noise the engine made when it was idling. the noise was kind of irregular, but after i adjusted all of the valves, the noise became lounder, but very balanced. it sounds less like a diesel engine. i thought that either i did it right, and the tapping is being cause by something else, there are a few other problems listed in my manual as possible causes; or else i did it wrong. my firned and i just took the head off of his toyota celica, and when we were looking at his cylinders, i realized that they were1234 when we were looking at them. so i thought that i might have screwed up by adjusting the # 4 cylinder when # 1 was at TDC etc.. anyways. i apreciate you guys letting me know. the only reference i saw on the engine or in my manual were the numbers on the caps holding the cam down. but they went from 1-5 so i knew it couldnt be the cylinder numbers. thanx again.

 

If you have the stock plug wires, they have the numbers on them. h:

 

wned: by wcs

 

The closest piston to the timing belt is the #1 piston.

 

I think we've established that..





:fawk:

 

:rofl: and 4 is on the tranny sideh:

 

True, but I was giving him a generalized answer that applies to any engine. :thumbup: