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Subject:Re: Removing Wbx Engine Case Studs
From:Mike Collum
Date:Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:32:02 -0500

Doug Noganav wrote:
> Anybody on here have any experience removing the head and case studs from a water boxer case?

I have no idea if this is the "Recommended" way but here's what I did
successfully.

Once the heads were removed, I "Double nutted" the tops of the studs and
used a mapp gas torch on the case where the studs screw in then turned
'em out with a wrench on the lower nut of the double nut arrangement.

Mike