Date:         Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:35:44 -0400
Reply-To:     Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Benny boy <huotb@VIDEOTRON.CA>
Subject:      Re: Engine out--won't come apart. Need heads!
Comments: To: Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>

Hey hey hey... i have been there so many time. Respect my friend... work
hard and learn the infamous way's of the wasser leaker.

Pry that sleeve out of there, even VW made it easy for us,, just look carefully.

I'm so bad....

Ben

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 21:25:29 -0500, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

>I got the engine out and used the expert advice received from previous
>threads to break it down without much trouble until it came to remove the
>cylinders. Only number one would budge. I'm pretty well equipped with tools,
>but whatever it takes to pry cylinders out of a waterboxer, I don't got.
>So, I tried to separate the case anyway. I've got it about four inches apart
>at the seam, but don't have a way to apply non-destructive force beyond
>that. So I gave up and will take it to a VW shop tomorrow to get the
>cylinders out.
>
>Everything I've seen inside looks pretty good, to my amazement, except the
>heads, which were used anyway. So much for used head.
>
>I just missed getting a set of very lightly used AMC heads by one day.
>Anybody else out there with a pair? I'm not looking for anything that needs
>to be welded or rebuilt, but for something in very good condition.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim