Date:         Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:32:02 -0500
Reply-To:     Mike Collum <collum@MYFAIRPOINT.NET>
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From:         Mike Collum <collum@MYFAIRPOINT.NET>
Subject:      Re: Removing Wbx Engine Case Studs
Comments: To: Doug Noganav <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET>
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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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