Re: Got a cylinder head

[Joshua Strait <joshua13s@hotmail.com>]

Well. . . First we (john) tried to take off the head the way you should, 
that is removing all necessary components including the exhaust manifold.  
Anyway, those two nuts under the manifold wouldn't break free for nothing, 
all I could really supply was moral support for John since I didn't want to 
break my cool new stitches.  After a lot of sweat and skinned knuckles (on 
John's part) we sort of decided to enlist the help John's dad and tractor to 
lift the car up, take it out of the barn and work on it there.  We put 
chains through the door openings, rested the bucket of the tractor on the 
roof of the car and fastened the chain to the front of the bucket.  When the 
car was picked up it bent the shit out of the roof and door openings, but 
not through the doors themselves.  Once we got it outside and after we tried 
a few things we decided to turn the car on its side.  Once this was 
accomplished, the best thing we could come up with was to saws-all through 
the downpipe, and if you ask John's dad, it is easier said than done.  that 
stainless steel is some hard stuff to saw through.  It took two blades.  
Just to complicate things the nearest outlet was at the other end of the 
barn, but I wasn't surprised when John and his dad rounded up 200 feet of 
extension cord to do the job.  Before the car was put on its side we took 
off both of the doors and I had to laugh when his dad commented that he had 
never heard of taking car doors off to remove an exhaust.  There was 
something surreal about the whole event.  To finish the story, the head is 
at the shop getting a complete valve job and machining  (no cracks John!!!), 
the exhauast manifold and partial downpipe is in the back of my GF's civic, 
and the busted up hulk of a Scirocco is safe in John's barn.  It is trashed!
What a week.


Josh


>received about the needed cylinder head.  John Van Vuren was the >closest 
>to me and was willing to part with one so I took a drive >Wisconsin.  
>Getting the head out was no fun, for John at least, I was >on injured 
>reserve because I slashed my arm open at work the night >before.  It 
>required 7 stitches (2inside/ 5 outside).  I'll spare >everyone the details 
>but to get the head out it required a tractor, >John's dad, a saws-all, two 
>blades, and about 200 feet of extension >cord, so use your imagination.

>I understand John's Dad and the saws-all.  The rest, not sure how I would
>have used them.
>


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