Oh no! Oil screen studs

[jeromeaircooled]

I am working on the 1600 dp that is intended for my beetle. The car is one of those "ran when parked" given to me for free deals. I pulled the engine to clean it and put new, freshly repainted tins on it to try to squeeze as much life out of it as I can. Today I noticed that one of the oil screen studs was broken off and the metal piece that holds it was quite bent, so I decided to replace it with a spare that I had. When torqueing the bolts I snapped two more off. $*%@! I didn't even get them to the 5 ft lbs bentley calls for. Is this a deal killer? I suppose the engine will leak like crazy. Can I drill them out or will I have to split the case?

[hambone]

I'm pretty sure they can be carefully drilled out with the engine in the car. Someone here asked that same question recently.

[bottomend]

Ask Sluggo about time-serts. He just did one and ( so far) it looks like he was successful.

[germansupplyscott]

we have these really cool studs for repairing the stripped sump stud holes. these are genuine NOS VW parts. a bit pricey, but probably cheaper that a timesert kit if you only need a few. i use these myself and they work really well. these used to be available from VW, but they are long gone. the ones we have are NOS.

http://germansupply.com/xcart/customer/ ... ctid=17275

[jeromeaircooled]

I think I'll be buying some of those. Thanks Scott

[germansupplyscott]

welcome, shipped 'em this afternoon!

[jeromeaircooled]

Sweet!!! Hope they get here soon. My Isuzu died and I need wheels!

[ruckman101]

Cha, those worked well on my engine.


neal