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Date:         Fri, 18 Oct 2013 21:06:03 -0700
Reply-To:     Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Scott Daniel <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Organization: Cosmic Reminders
Subject:      Re: off with her heads
Comments: To: Stuart MacMillan <stuartmacm@GMAIL.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <043501cecc64$9dbf5100$d93df300$@gmail.com>
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yup ... it's a bit fiddly ...fitting the wrist pin into the assembled piston and barrel though the hole in the block, the the circlip after the wrist pin. there's danger of dropping that clip into the case at that point too. Lots of fun.

I just use an ordinary piston ring compressor, the kind you'd use on a V-8 chevy say. I still have the air-cooled type of ring compressor ..I never use it.

On 10/18/2013 5:46 PM, Stuart MacMillan wrote: > Yes, I'd like to know how you gurus do this without the special VW ring > compressing tool shown in the Bentley! Install the piston in the sleeve and > then attach the assembly to the rod? This is another reason I've not > bothered with rebuilding a WBX, but I am curious. > > Stuart > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of > Tom Carchrae > Sent: Friday, October 18, 2013 3:24 PM > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM > Subject: Re: off with her heads > > Thanks Dennis & Jim. I had wondered about how hard it actually would be > to put the piston rings back on. I told my dad, who'd done it with his > aircooled back in the day, and he said, what is the big deal, just pull the > sleeve off. Not that I don't trust him, but I think his last bus was > around the time I was born (I've seen pics of my pregnant mom helping to > lift out the engine by sitting on a board). He thought it was a good idea > to pull them off and you could perhaps get some more life/compression by > changing the piston rings. And yeah, I've seen a few videos on that piston > clip and that looks like a horror. > > Jim; you mentioned the sledge earlier - I have a 50lb one in the woodshed, > dangerously close to the van. I just look at it and mutter, please don't > let it come to that! > > Scott/Stuart - thanks for the warnings. So far, I'm loving the flat engine > layout, but I didn't know that the distributor could drop parts down like > that. Yeargh. > > Tom >


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