Thanks right, Earl. But even before swapping the links, the engine ran lame, even with the Johnson bar working backward. Bob Keller told me that the reason the driver was reversed was that he actually out-reasoned himself before putting it in when rebuilding the engine. He had forgotten to mark which end was left and right when he had disassembled the engine. He thought about the 90 degree offset of one crank pin verses the other, and realized that the lead of one over the other was the same no matter which way the axle was installed - so he reasoned that it wouldn't matter which way it went in.
But he forgot about the cams on the axle and what effect that would have on the timing. So, in the end there was no way to correct the timing without removing the axle and putting it back the right way. This wasn't so simple without a drop pit, and in those days we didn't have one in Chama yet - and they had no shop facility at all at Lake Tahoe.
In the fall after it arrived in Chama, Bob told me that Scenic was contemplating giving me the project to turn the axle around and also to construct a nice oak pilot for the #5. But in the end, they decided they couldn't afford to do even that at that time.
I trust that someone has corrected the problem since then.