Thanks to all who have helped me with my question on water pump
gaskets.

I was planning to take out a broken exhaust stud from my cylinder head
tomorrow with a drill and easy-out, but heard stories of broken
easy-outs.  More importantly, the wife is saying that we have to go to
her brother's house in Vacaville this weekend for a BBQ (I'm taking
the station wagon, but if I'm drinking beer at a BBQ, I can't work on
the van) ...

Then the son asks me to take him camping, which is just cracking the
pressure on me to get the Westy running.  Basically, I opted for an
outsourcing of the  stud removal job since I've gotta start work on
putting the engine back together.  Well, I took my cylinder head to a
machine shop which is five minutes from my office.  The guy at the
shop told me the job would cost about $40.  Does that sound about
right?

If I try this broken stud removal job myself in the future, how
difficult is it?  The stud is broken flush with cylinder head in this
case.

-- Craig

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Craig Oda   craigoda@communitybuilders.info
VW Info: 1983 VW Westfalia, water-cooled, automatic