If those heads work, why swap them out? Check the compression to see if
any sicko surprises await, and if not, USE them
Buy the exhaust system from a bus and party on.

Though it may be *possible* to pull the heads with the motor in the van,
you would be a sick man indeed to even try it. You'ld be looking at
probably 5 times the effort of pulling the motor, combined with 10 time
the busted knuckles and 100 times the "ah-sh*t!" errors due to the
cramped space, and being leaned over the motor box.

Pull the motor if you are going to do anything on this vehicle. It takes
about 30 minutes to get it out, and about 50 min to put it back/hook up
stuff.

Developing business and guiding change since 1996,

G. Matthew Bulley
Bulley-Hewlett
Marketing & Communications
Business: www.bulley-hewlett.com
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Phone: +1.919.658.1278

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
Of Flowers, Robert O Mr (CPF N69RF)
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2002 5:31 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Air Cooled Cylinder Head Questions

All-

If anyone has been paying attention ... I 'bought' an 82 humpty dumpty
van.
I got it back together enough to see if I could get it to fire and yes,
Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ... with no exhaust on it ... man, it
was
loud! Neighbors *love* me.  ;)

Looked at how the exhaust connects and realized the buffoon PO tried to
swap
an early type2 head on there - so, the vanagon exhaust will not connect.
So,
I'm going to take a chance on a junkyard head ...

1. Is there a right-left difference in the heads?
2. What should I look for in a junk-yard special?
3. Can I swap the head w/out dropping the engine?

No, I don't have a Bentley, yet. Have a hard time spending as much as
for
manuals as I'll have spent on the van ...

Much Mahalo,
Robert Flowers
99 Yamaha VStar 1100, 98 SVT Contour, 90 Mustang GT, 82 VW Van
71 Wife, 90 Son, 94 Daughter, 99 Son