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On Tuesday 04 September 2001 20:52, jesse and monica wrote: > Hey all, > I may be buying a 71 squareback from Justin a fellow type3.org listee. > He lived in Maine, i live in southern pennsylvania. It's about 550 to > 600 miles each way. I want to try to drive the car home but....but here > is the catch. The car has 2 head studs pulling from the case. The studs > are not on the same cylinder. Would i be an idiot to try to drive the > car this far in this condition? I really don't want to have to pay to > have the car shipped. My wife would probably be driving a rental car > along with me so if the car broke down we could pull it off of the road. > What you you old schoolers out there think? Leon, you always seem to > know how far these engines will go. I just want to know if i should be > even considering this. thanks for all of your help everyone. > later, It is possible to drive the car 600 miles with just 2 pulled studs, but are there any others getting ready to pull. How is the rest of the engine? I wouldn't try to drive it very hard. They do make a screw in replacement studs that could be put in to get it home. The inner end of the stud kinda looks like a modified tap. It is self tapping. Any possibility of towing it. with like a U-hual truck. Or maybe rent a one-way truck big enough to put the car inside. -- Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org