Richard; Are you still having trouble? I recall adding a lot of heat and pounding with a rubber mallet to separate them. Drive Safely & Good Luck Ken Lewis<Kernersville,NC>86 VW crewcab;60 T-5 Coupe On Mon, 25 Oct 1999 05:08:15 PDT Richard Bias <rbias@HOTMAIL.COM> writes: >Good morning all, > My Vanagons 1.9L "Wasserboxxer" engine is spread all over (in a very >organized manner) my garage floor. I have read all the E-mail and >have >talked to my local Parts Store guy and I am still a little confused as >to >how to proceed with this task. I took the passenger side head off >trying to >leave the cylinder walls in place. No luck. The cylinder walls were >coming >off with the head no matter what I wanted. 2 questions here... >1. How do I separate the cylinder walls from the head now that the >head is >sitting on my work bench? and... >2. Is there a way to get the cylinder walls back in the block without >pulling the engine or taking the pistons out? > Thanks to everyone who has been in my shoes and will reply to me. >Any >added information will be greatly appreciated also. >Richard F. Bias >'98 Bug >'85 Vanagon GL > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ________________________________________________________________ Get free e-mail you don't need Web access to use -- Or get full, reliable Internet access from Juno Web! Download your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagh. |
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