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Date:         Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:00:05 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: [Diesel-Vanagon] Re: Diesel Vanagon Exhaust Design
Comments: To: Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
In-Reply-To:  <50D4C427.8010504@turbovans.com>
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> There is a special tool for those spring clamps. > >> >>> >>> It's called a come-along. Put one hook on a c-clip, the other on a convenient body or suspension part, and start cranking. Shield your eyes. Hopefully you can replace them with something else, or do as I did and throw them away since I was putting the Jetta engine that had them into a Vanagon.

Not only to you need special tools (steel wedges) you need a magic wand to make room to swing the hammer that it will take to drive them.

Ugh.

Jim


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