Vahid Lajevardi writes: > > I am doing a mini rebuild on my 80 vanagon. By mini rebuild I mean I am > changing the cylinders and pistions but do not spliting the cranckcase open. > > Everything has proceeded well except I can't get the piston pin out. > Any suggestions appreciated. Need more details. Can you not get the clip out? Or the pin itself? Which one? All of them? On my engine, I did this once with the engine in the van and couldn't get the #3 pin out. I had to grind a small notch in the transmission case to get it out. -David ============================================================================ David Schwarze '73 VW Safare Custom Camper (Da Boat) SAIC Comsystems, San Diego Calif. '73 Capri GT 2800 (Da Beast) e-mail: schwarze@nosc.mil '87 Mustang Lx 5.0 (Da Sleeper) http://papaya.nosc.mil/~schwarze '93 Weber WG-50 (Da Piano) ============================================================================
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