Now that my mother-in-law is out of the hospital, I can go back to finishing
the head gasket replacement I started in May.  Or I could if I could find
the head nut that's still attached to the piece of broken head stud...

Anyone in the Olympia or Tacoma, WA, area have a spare Vanagon head nut
they'd like to be rid of?

If I can ever get the broken stud out of there, I'll be able to button
things together in short order.  I've tried the stud remover they sell at
Sears - it cut such shallow splines in the stud that turning it with a
socket just honed the stud down a quarter of a mm or so.  Next step will be
the longest, thinnest vice grips I can find...

Randy, Carla & Anna Huyck, Olympia, WA
'75 Rustfalia
'85 Vanagon GL
'90 Fox GL
'74 Super Beetle