lol...
very cute.
right 'shield your eyes' ...sounds risky !

Seems like not many people are familair with the 'real tool.
Mine might be a Hazzat brand ..made in Der Fatherland.
Cost 60 bucks probably, maybe more these days.
If things are going right ..I will never have to use it again...'cause I
don't 'do'FWD VW's  with sideways engines anymore.

I wouldn't say there is any actual replacement for those big spring clips.
Istill have some if anyone needs any. And 'bowl' header pipes, one or 2.

scott
turbovans

On 12/21/2012 5:00 PM, Jim Felder wrote:
>> There is a special tool for those spring clamps.
>>
>>>> It's called a come-along. Put one hook on a c-clip, the other on a
> convenient body or suspension part, and start cranking. Shield your eyes.
> Hopefully you can replace them with something else, or do as I did and
> throw them away since I was putting the Jetta engine that had them into a
> Vanagon.
>
> Not only to you need special tools (steel wedges) you need a magic wand to
> make room to swing the hammer that it will take to drive them.
>
> Ugh.
>
> Jim
>