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As a viewer of the Samba/Vanagon and C80-90 I find invaluable info on both - but don't think some of you get onto the US site. I have posted about http://www.benplace.com before as I think he does some excellent body/tech descriptions - but this is the best yet if you - like me have been grappling with the idiosynchratic barrel, piston, water jacket, headgasket combination by trying to visualise from outside the engine.

Before i tell you the link - please read the warning about his bandwidth limits - I would hate to be the one who leads to loads of hits tonight/tomorrow on the videos

- if you really are interested in removing barrels and pistons, cleaning up, refitting barrels (w gaskets top and bottom), and refitting heads onto new water jacket gaskets - or want to know why even the experts on here estimate £4-500 to do the job for you (assuming all goes well ) then imagine doing this with the engine in situ....

http://www.benplace.com/pistons_heads_video.htm

When I changed my cylinder heads in situ a couple of years ago I found it quite easy to set each piston in turn to top dead centre and pull the barrel out just *NOT* far enough to pop the rings out of the barrel. This was in order to replace the lower seals which are just a large diamer small section "O" rings and quite stretchy within reason. cleaning the seat is of course a necessity. I know an engine removal is not so difficult but at that time I did find it onerous and chose the in-situ route preferable. This was successful as the engine ran well right up until my recent rebuild due to shot ends. Unfortunatelly the shells cannot be change so easily
Cheers
Wolfie
A moving picture is of course worth even more words