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Subject:Re: 81 Westy head removal, advice?
From:Ian Cameron
Date:Wed, 12 Jan 2000 14:39:36 -0800

At 09:14 AM 1/12/00 -0800, Stuart MacMillan wrote:
>Air cooled, right?  No way to remove heads in situ, need to drop the
>engine and remove the sheet metal to even get at the nuts.

Wellllll - you CAN get heads off one of these things in situ, but it's a
bear.  I did it once - never again.  I figured that since I was in the
middle of no-where with not much in the way of tools, and a valve being hit
by a piston on every stroke, that I'd be better off just taking off the
head.  Wrong.  In retrospect, it would have been easier to drop the engine.