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Subject:Re: jugs, vw that is...
From:Stuart MacMillan
Date:Fri, 5 Nov 1999 13:44:59 -0800

That is a big "oh s**t!"  That will teach you to RTFM before you start a
big repair like this!

Check the archives over the last few weeks, someone said they had done
this but with great difficulty.  Something about a big hose clamp and a
small right angle ratchet screwdriver I think.

Jay & Kim Schmidt wrote:
>
> I pulled a head to replace it and the cylinders came with it. I got them off
> the old head and now to reinstall them...but HOW? On my air-cooled pancake,
> I use a large hose clamp as a ring compressor, but on the wasserboxer(84),
> the jugs aren't exposed-they are surrounded by that aluminum shroud.
> Does that shroud thingy have to come off to reinstall the cylinders over the
> pistons? What says the list?
> TIA,
> Jay

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