I stopped short of saying that I first removed the cylinders and pistons. I made a wrist pin puller out of a length of pipe large enough for the pin to slide into, some "Allthread" and nuts and washers. You have to pull #s 2 and 4 pistons before you can pull #s 1 and 3. That is because you have to go through the holes in the water jacket to access the wrist pins. You remove the C-clip that you can see, put the allthread through the wrist pin, put a washer and nut or at least a nut on the inboard end (small enough to clear the C-clip on the blind side), slide the pipe over the allthread, put a large washer on the allthread that will rest on the end of the pipe, then put on a nut and, using a wrench, turn the nut so that the wrist pin is withdrawn. Of course, you have to immobilize the all thread while turning the wrench. Mike
Mike Collum wrote: > Doug Noganav wrote: >> Anybody on here have any experience removing the head and case studs >> from a water boxer case? > > I have no idea if this is the "Recommended" way but here's what I did > successfully. > > Once the heads were removed, I "Double nutted" the tops of the studs and > used a mapp gas torch on the case where the studs screw in then turned > 'em out with a wrench on the lower nut of the double nut arrangement. > > Mike > |
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