Prolly a silly question, but how are the cylinders numbered?

Hopefully this diagram will work OK......firing order is 1-5-4-8-6-3-7-2

          passenger side

        (1) (2) (3) (4)

front --------------- rear

        (5) (6) (7) (8)

           driver side

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

It all started a long time ago when early humans needed a way to quantify, count, and measure things. It started as a simple tally mark according to evidence found on bones from about 35000 years ago. About 3500 years ago, something more significant was needed for the more complex societies, such as the Mesopotamia base 60 system and the slightly newer Egyptian base 10 system. Because of this concept, it became possible to put things in a sequence that has a logical meaning. Flash forward about 3000 years, the automobile companies use an internal combustion engine which can use only one cylinder or many. In the case of the multiple cylinder engines, it is useful to number them for assembly and trouble shooting purposes. For the Y Block V8 engine, they numbered the cylinders 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 from front to back on the passenger side and 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 on the driver side. And that is how cylinders are numbered.


Lawrenceville, GA

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  Dennis in Lititz PA

thanks charlie

i count stuff all the time without a thought of were counting or numbering came from now i know

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Tough crowd for Friday humor!  What I wonder is why the real number 1 cylinder is on the other side?

'Cause it's too hard to reach the spark plug wires when they're on the bottom????

Louis Chevrolet couldn't tell left from right????

Ford engineers had already built a few million v8's when the others started - Maybe they knew something the others couldn't figure out??????

 
 Steve Metzger       Tucson, Arizona

Actually you can number them anyway you want as long as you remember how you did it and adapt the wiring accordingly. I like starting from the back then working on the wires and plugs gets easier as you work your way up in the numbers!

Hint: If you look at the heads you will see the passenger side head is forward of the drivers side by an inch or so. Normally number 1 is the furthest forward cylinder.

Can you imagine how long it took a room full of Engineers to come to agreement on that the first time? Chuck in NH

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