Fellow Vanagon Nuts, (I sent this message earlier but it was returned but here goes again, sorry for taking up the bandwidth with a repeat.) I purchased an '84 Vanagon 1.9L engine recently. It had developed the inevitable head gasket leak at 73,000 miles and the owner disassembled it hoping to fix it himself but got cold feet and sold it to me. Unfortunately, he extracted the cylinder sleeves for some reason. My question is this: is there a way to re-install the cylinder sleeves over the pistons without either taking the rods loose from the crankshaft or the pistons from the rods? Is there a ring compressor (or has anyone improvised something) that will get into that small space and facilitate the re-installation of the cylinders and heads without further disturbance of the pistons and rods? Thanks for your assistance. Russell Gunter Woodbridge, VA |
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