What's your time worth? $40 doesn't sound so bad.
Craig Oda - Personal email <craigoda@COMMUNITYBUILDERS.INFO> @gerry.vanagon.com> on 06/14/2002 01:52:40 PM Please respond to Craig Oda - Personal email <craigoda@COMMUNITYBUILDERS.INFO> Sent by: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM cc: Subject: Thanks and Broken Stud Removal
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 -- Craig Oda craigoda@communitybuilders.info VW Info: 1983 VW Westfalia, water-cooled, automatic |
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