Volks,
a local mechanic gave me a call regarding a job in which the owner of a 84
vanagon pulled the heads to replace them, and thus the cylinders came off
with them.

Went down to take a look, and from what I can tell there is very little room
to get the cylinders over the pistons without tearing down the motor.  The
water jacket comes out so far on the case, that the piston is almost fully
extended with maybe an inch out of the water jacket, thus leaving zero room
for a ring compressor..............

Who has been able to work around this?  I would love to be able to fix this
for my friend in exchange for body work!!!!!

Adam P
81 westy (2 of them)
74 beetle
73 Transporter (new!!!!!!!) Total resto in progress

Vanagon Partsmobiles