At 02:18 PM 12/26/2004, you wrote:
>Specifically, I don't have the means of anchoring the engine while I apply
>the required torque.    So I was thinking about splitting the case and
>just removing the crank with  the pulley still attached, and after it's
>out, take it over to a local machine shop and have them remove it.  Is
>that a reasonable approach?  Also, I have to ask this silly
>question  ........ is the bolt a standard left-hand thread to remove?  Any
>other suggestions?

I remember back when I was ten or eleven years old watching my father do
the clutch on his beetle and he had a five or six foot length of  angle
iron (it may even have been scavenged from a cheap metal bed frame) that
he'd drilled a couple holes in and bolted to the engine to keep it from
rolling over when cranking stuff on and off. I don't recall exactly where
he attached it, but I reckon one might be able to affix such a thing to the
transmission mounting points on a wasserboxer. Dunno if this is even a
workable approach here, but I figured I might as well throw the notion out
there...

John Bange
'90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"