need to know the cylinder numbers on a 9n engine

One thang about it, it can all be up to your own perspective, and long as you follow *all* the way through with the same perspective...

You do not have to believe in, or thank from, the same box that everyone else thanks in, just be sure to keep your ducks in a row when you get outside it.

Here let me show you how that werks.

WHY make it even more confusing?

For that matter, if you want to be silly about it, leave the cylinder numbering as the manufacturer intended, and make the firing order 2-4-3-1. As long as any ONE of those wires is on the correct plug and nipple, the others will be correct, too. Or, 4-3-1-2, or 3-1-2-4, or back to 1-2-4-3!

For the purpose of trying to give a working understanding.

One that you appear to have from your last paragraph.

Certain Ford V-8's have the CYLINDER NUMBERING set up entirely different, with a different firing order.

If you "forget" it's a Dorf engine, and mentally number the cylinders in the Chevy convention, and then install the plug wires following the Chevy firing order, all will be well.

Just some silly stuff manufacturers do, rather that stick to some kind of a standard convention between brands.

They teach "memorize this", and when asked this question, be able to put "this" down on a test.

I have a problem with that.

I think they should teach thinking, and understanding what is happening, and why, some times the best way to teach that, is to show the same thing from different angles, and different views.

This country is going downhill for some reason.

God Bless America.

I don't like Ford Motor Company.

These old tractors were built on principals of a great man!!! One that I admire to no end. (all of that was lost many years ago)

They are a work of genius unheard of at the time.
(Don't leave Ferguson out of that)

IMO they are very much responsible for the Great America we knew a couple of decades back.

Principals that have been replaced by a "use it, throw it away, and buy another" society.

I will quit now, before I get depressed about it.

Rocky in MO

Rocky in MO