[Otter74]

I was having grand day driving in the mountains of West Virginia when early this evening the engine spit out the #6 plug. Threads in the head are screwed - the plug will seem to thread in but it never bottoms out and you can then just pull it out. So I have two questions while I figure out a game plan for tomorrow:

1) is the head permanently fixable - TimeSert or something else - or is any fix u,timately temporary and I'll have to replace the head?

2) is the car driveable long distances? Obviously it's not getting spark to #6 and I unplugged the injector so it's not getting fuel. The cylinder is still getting lubricated. So the fundamentals seem there. The engine is obviously imbalanced but this doesn't seem like a big issue. Not sure if the absence of heat on #6 only is an issue. I drove the car about 25 miles to my destination for the evening, and I'm ok driving it 90 miles to Pittsburgh tomorrow. in a perfect world, I'd nurse it home the 500 miles to Chicago. Sure it's slow and loud as hell, but all I'm concerned about is damaging the engine.

It's either get it home (renting a truck and trailer is going to cost a fortune, so I doubt I'll do that) myself or leave it in Pittsburgh, have someone fix it there (I've got a place to store the ar as long as needed), fly home and fly back later to get it.

Thoughts?