I would return it to the machine shop if I were you, why dont you go for a
new one, I have an 82 and had to replace both heads, I got them form Bow
wow parts (based in Vancouver), bolts right in,no problems so far

Steven
82 Westy
Manila Philippines
Happily Aircooled

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> From: meek <meek@SHAW.WAVE.CA>
> To: Vanagon@VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Panic: was sold wrong head for 82 air vanagon
> Date: Thursday, June 11, 1998 5:39 AM
>
> My machine shop sold me a head  for my two litre air cooled
> 1982 Vanagon, but turns out to be the head for the ~ '78 or so
> two litre air cooled motor.
>
> This I discover when about to connect the exhaust pipes from
> the air box to the new head.  I'm not about to take the head off,
> since all the trouble putting in new rings and all.
>
> 1. Does anyone make a small pipe adapter that will extend the
>     exhaust pipes to this earlier model head?
>
>     or
>
> 2. Does anyone have a fritzed air box from a late seventies van,
>     from which I can cut off the exhaust pipes, and connect them
>     properly to my new head, then weld them to the 82 air box?
>
>    or
>
> 3. Am I stupid to consider custom work?  Just take off the head
>     and give it back to the machine shop.  It was their error in the
>     first place. (Except that no one around these parts has the proper
>     82 head in question.)
>
> Spitting nails in the north.
>
> Gary Meek
>
> 82 Vanagon, TD
> 82 Vanagon, air cooled