Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 18:39:09 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Advice needed for replacing front and rear header pipes and
hardware
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'normally' one wouldn't remove an entire engine just to replace the exhaust
system on a waterboxer engine.
- perhaps lower the rear of the engine ( just 4 bolts ) to help access bolts
on the cat and muffler .....but otherwise, just leave it the engine in.
and it helps to get some stuff out of the way. Also expect that it will be
harder the first time you do it. After a while....
you learn the tricks, or accumulate special tools, or whatever .......it's
mostly all pretty easy to access on a vanagon.
mainly, I wanted to say I like seeing the other posts that a person is
replying to.
Being on numerous lists, and not being able to track a huge number of
separate conversions, it doesn't do me any good to see someone's reply, and
not what they are replying to. So thanks for leaving that stuff on your
reply !
I'd say you do the exhaust in the van, unless there is some special reason
where you need better access........like extreme rust and you want to heat
things with a torch to help things unscrew instead of break off,
..........or if a stud breaks off and you need to do serious 'dental work'
on the engine - drilling and taping threads, etc. It's infinitely easier to
do exhaust-related things like that on just the engine, out of the van.
Scott
www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Hartman" <jeffreyleehartman@GMAIL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Advice needed for replacing front and rear header pipes and
hardware
>I want to thank all of you for your responses. The images are really
>helpful
> too, and provide courage that there is some header hardware out there that
> actually looks worse than mine, and has still been removed using the
> techniques described. I am now pondering what some of you have said about
> the advantage of just pulling the engine. It looks very tough to get to
> the
> top stud on the forward driver side head, without some additional working
> room.
> Thanks, Jeff Hartman
> Juneau, AK
> P.S. did I reply improperly, and mess up the way these were all nicely
> linked together? It has been awhile since I posted in a chain.
>
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Dennis Haynes
> <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I agree. It does not make sense to pull the engine to do an exhaust.
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
>> Of
>> Ken Wilford
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 19, 2009 9:35 AM
>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>> Subject: Re: Advice needed for replacing front and rear header pipes and
>> hardware
>>
>> Except if you are installing an S&S Header system. You can put the
>> system on the engine but then it will not allow you to get the engine to
>> the bell housing of the transmission. If you are doing one of these
>> install the engine or leave it installed and then do the exhaust in the
>> van. I have done it both ways it I have never really found it that much
>> easier out of the van.
>>
>> Ken Wilford
>> John 3:16
>> www.vanagain.com
>>
>>
>> Benny boy wrote:
>> > Remove the engine, everything will be more easy and simple. Like Frank,
>> > i
>> > have been there to many time and no way i would do the job with the
>> engine
>> > still in!.
>> > http://www.benplace.com/gilles/gilles3.jpg
>> > http://www.benplace.com/syncro/syncro31.jpg
>> > http://www.benplace.com/syncro/syncro29.jpg
>> > http://www.benplace.com/head3/100_0007.jpg
>> >
>> > I can post 50 pictures.
>> >
>> > Ben
>> > http://www.benplace.com/
>> >
>> >
>>
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